Quotes from Neil Gaiman

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.