Neil Gaiman Quotes

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewh...

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices.

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.

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 can.

I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it mo...

It is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

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

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look jus...

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

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.

Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone said at my first Milford, about using style as a covering, but sooner...

Rebirth always follows death.

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

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about...