Neil Gaiman Quotes

There's a thing that happens in Hollywood, when you hand in a script with magic in it, and the people at the studio who read it say "We don't quite understand... can you explain the rules? What are th...

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When yo...

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of...

So many things to see, people to do.

We are small but we are manyWe are many we are smallWe were here before you roseWe will be here when you fall

No, said the cat. Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Brakuje mi słowa. Chodzi o odwrotność świętości.- Profanum? - odparł Cień.- Nie. Chodzi mi o miejsca mniej święte niż każde inne. O ujemnej świętości. Miejsca, w których nie da się postawić żadnej świ...

The world is always ending for someone.

I was not scared of anything, when I read my book...

I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means Don't leave me here alone.

I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?

Yes, I was scared of the Daleks and the Zarbi and the rest, but I was taking other, stranger, more important lessons away from my Saturday tea time serial. For a start, I became infected by the idea t...

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Seek not revenge, but the Buddha.

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe wi...

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, an...

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.