Neil Gaiman Quotes

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath.

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.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

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.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.

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

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

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.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

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

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

You don't have to stay anywhere forever.

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

All bookshelves are magical.

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.