Neil Gaiman Quotes (259 Quotes)

Strategy number one is that I always, or almost always, have at least two or three different things that I'm writing at any one time.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

You say I have no power Perhaps you speak truly ... but you say that dreams have no power here Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar ... ask yourselves, all of you ... what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven.

The deal was very, very simple. From Henson, it was, We will give you not enough money to make a film with, and in return, we will leave you alone. You get creative control. Give us (a) family fantasy film,'

exists for him chiefly as a body in a sequence of hotel rooms.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

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.