Neil Gaiman Quotes

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each other over, but they're incredibly real.

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist.

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

I am the most miserable person who ever lived, " he said... "You are young, and in love, " said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Name the different kinds of people, ’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living, ’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

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.

Everything that is, casts a shadow

I am hope.

And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

DEATH: "Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear."MORPHEUS: "And I am far more terrible than you, sister.

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

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?""Then what died? who are you mourning?""A point of view.

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

I really don't know what "I love you" means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.