Neil Gaiman Quotes

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

I wanted books and made no distinction between good books or bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely liked. I did not care how a story was written. Th...

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existenc...

I woke myself in the darkness, and I knew only that a dream had scared me so badly that I had to wake up or die, and yet, try as I might, I could not remember what I had dreamed. The dream was hauntin...

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, som...

Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good when they were freshly-picked and raw, and put them in tin cans, and make them revolting.

You don't pass or fail at being a person

If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait f...

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

When most people said I'm psychic, you see, they meant I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie; when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was ad...

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

People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.

It is the curse of age, that all things are reflections of other things.

You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.

That feeling I get when I go looking in my head for a word that isn’t there, as if someone must have come and taken it in the night.

You're weird,' she said. 'You don't have any friends.''I didn't come here for friends,' said Bod truthfully. i came here to learn.'Mo's nose twitched. Do you know how weird that is?' she asked. Nobody...

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.

کلی کتاب و مجله و روزنامه خوانده بود. می دانست اگر از خانه فرار کند ممکن است باافراد ناباب روبرو شود که ممکن بود بلایی سرش بیاورند.اما از طرفی افسانه های پریان را نیز خوانده بود، پس می دانست آدم های خ...

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.