Neil Gaiman Quotes

There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

Truly life is wasted on the living.

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

Nobody's seen Jesus in years.

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.

Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.

I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.

Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.