Neil Gaiman

"I really don't know what "I love you"means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something."

"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 quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."

"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 after another. Find the next word. Write it down."

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"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!"

"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 platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."

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

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)"

"We owe it to each other to tell stories."

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

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

"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."

"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."

"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 platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."