When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. – Neil Gaiman
Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, ‘Boy, you’re a really good walker around,’ you know. It’s not really hard. – Neil Gaiman
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. – Neil Gaiman
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children’s library until I finished the children’s library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them. – Neil Gaiman
It’s a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it’s not something I find terribly important. – Neil Gaiman
The short story is still like the novel’s wayward younger brother, we know that it’s not respectable – but I think that can also add to the glory of it. – Neil Gaiman
Every now and then I’ll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn’t have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things. – Neil Gaiman
I’ve never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them. – Neil Gaiman
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don’t have that. – Neil Gaiman
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. – Neil Gaiman
I don’t know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading – these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. – Neil Gaiman
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. – Neil Gaiman
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. – Neil Gaiman
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn’t taste like anything much. – Neil Gaiman
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. – Neil Gaiman
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t to make it all bearable. – Neil Gaiman
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked… that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right. – Neil Gaiman
‘Doctor Who’ was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. – Neil Gaiman
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. – Neil Gaiman
I kept starting ‘Anansi Boys’ as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. – Neil Gaiman
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? – Neil Gaiman
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. – Neil Gaiman
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. – Neil Gaiman
With ‘Stardust’, I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children. – Neil Gaiman
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. – Neil Gaiman
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. – Neil Gaiman