Iโm an author. We donโt want to lead. We donโt need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside peopleโs heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we donโt. We never know. We just make stuff up.
Neil GaimanGoing 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 GaimanIt would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.
Neil GaimanNow Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.
Neil GaimanI move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.
Neil GaimanI toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.
Neil Gaiman