Neil Gaiman Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.”

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

“Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.”

“With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.”

“Make good art.”

“Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.”

“The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.”

“For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.”

“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.”

“I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.”