Neil Gaiman Quotes

Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future...

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.

Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

You are almost never cool to your children.

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you

Adults follow paths. Children explore.

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.

You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.

This book is the book you have just read. It’s done.

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope.

Without stories, we are incomplete.

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.

Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.

I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true.

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.

People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before.

When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories.

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People.- No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watching, and did not leave the reader or the viewer feeling cheated at the end.

I think that there should have been some nice wumpires, " said my sister, wistfully. "Nice, handsome, misunderstood wumpires.""There were not, " said my father.

But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.

... and what happened next?

I have always felt, ” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats

Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile.

I'm not much of a challenge here in the dark.

On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how deeply they sleep.Heimdall will blow Gjallerhorn only once, at the end of all things, Ragnarok.

Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme (...)".

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

Hell is something you carry with you.

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

Because, " she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do wit

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.