Neil Gaiman Quotes

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

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

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

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

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Dreams are hopes, and echoes of hope.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.

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

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I am lost in the darkness of a downcast heart. Dream or reality. Let it be decided tonight.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.

There's an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you've been somewhere before, that you've somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.