Neil Gaiman Quotes

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

I'm somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

Even nothing cannot last forever.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.

Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

I learned to write by writing. 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.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

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

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

I learned to write by writing.

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

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

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.