Author: Neil Gaiman

Quotes

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

- Neil Gaiman

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.

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.

- Neil Gaiman

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

- Neil Gaiman

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

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

- Neil Gaiman

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

- Neil Gaiman

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

- Neil Gaiman

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

- Neil Gaiman

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

- Neil Gaiman

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

- Neil Gaiman

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