Neil Gaiman Quotes

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

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

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

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

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Libraries are our friends.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

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.

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

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

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.