Quotes from Neil Gaiman

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.

Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before.

"Friday's a free day. A woman's day."

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.

If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.