Neil Gaiman Stuff Quotations

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.

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

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

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese..