Neil Gaiman Quotes

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

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.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

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.

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

When things get tough... Make good art.

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

This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.

Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.