Neil Gaiman Quotes

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

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

Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.

She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

Without dreams, there could be no despair.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

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.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

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

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.