Quotes from Neil Gaiman

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business.

What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?" "Because I'm a damsel in distress," she said. "And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car.

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."

I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

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.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.