American Gods Quotes

American Gods Quote of the day

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

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

None so blind as those who will not see.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

None so blind as those who won't see.

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

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

One thing that I get from a lot of people with American Gods is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good, ’“ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.