Neil Gaiman Quotes

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.

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.

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

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

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

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

Even nothing cannot last forever.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Too soon, the sun will rise.

Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage that follows: "So," said Silas. "Now there are only three of us." "And a pig," said Kandar [the mummy] "Why?" Asked Miss Lupescu, with a wolf-tongue, through wolf teeth. "Why the Pig?" "It's lucky," said Kandar. Miss Lupescu growled, unconvinced. "Did Haroun have a pig?" asked Kandar, simply.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you? Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.

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.

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

Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work.

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

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

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.