"I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle sho...
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
~ Neil Gaiman ~
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
More Neil Gaiman quotes
"I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there...
"If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re ...
"I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and ge...
"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.
"And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a de...
"We owe it to each other to tell stories.
"If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong...
"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
"I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There w...
"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
"I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from...
"Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise ...
"My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book woul...
"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols ...