I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
Neil GaimanChildren, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.
Neil GaimanBooks are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).
Neil GaimanI don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.
Neil GaimanActually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.
Neil GaimanReligions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.
Neil Gaiman