"If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it...
As we write we summon little demons.
More Neil Gaiman quotes
"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
"It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conju...
"You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of ...
"I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and ge...
"And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
"Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one a...
"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a...
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than ...
"When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in a...
"It's a weird thing, writing.Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear sum...
"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the pla...