A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on... - Neil Gaiman

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

"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."

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

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

"Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)"