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.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

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.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

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 all it was a pretty good day.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

You have a very open relationship with your fans. Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.