Neil Gaiman Quotes

It's easier to believe in aliens than in gods.

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.

Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

When things get tough... Make good art.

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

You can't make me love you.

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

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.

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

So many things to see, people to do.

What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.