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I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head. — Neil Gaiman

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing ... — Neil Gaiman

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. — Neil Gaiman

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. — Neil Gaiman

Most of us find our own voices only after we've sounded like a lot of other people. — Neil Gaiman

I don't know what it's like to read this book. I only know what it was like to live the writing of it. I — Neil Gaiman

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. — Neil Gaiman

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something. — Neil Gaiman

I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true. — Neil Gaiman

We are writing the future in Letters of Fire. — Neil Gaiman

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. — Neil Gaiman

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong. — Neil Gaiman

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. — Neil Gaiman

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing. — Neil Gaiman

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself. — Neil Gaiman

On the whole, stories don't write themselves. — Neil Gaiman

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009) — Neil Gaiman

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day. — Neil Gaiman

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. — Neil Gaiman

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. — Neil Gaiman

Most books I write because I realize there's a book sized hole in the universe and I want to fill it. — Neil Gaiman

I learned to write by writing. — Neil Gaiman

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. — Neil Gaiman

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman

There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you. — Neil Gaiman

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. — Neil Gaiman

Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down. — Neil Gaiman

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. — Neil Gaiman

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. — Neil Gaiman

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. — Neil Gaiman

somewhere in the night someone was writing — Neil Gaiman

As we write we summon little demons. — Neil Gaiman

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman