Neil Gaiman Quotes

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the em...

He stopped for a moment, and he thought about people, and about things, and about how hard it is to do anything for the first time.

DEATH: Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear.MORPHEUS: And I am far more terrible than you, sister.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly.Would you like one? she asked the little dog.Yes, please, whispered the dog. Only not toffee ones. They make me drool.I thought...

There were ten tongues within one head, and one went out to fetch some bread, to feed the living and the dead." "What does it mean?" "A wren made a nest inside the skull of a gibbeted corpse, flying i...

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place... Most, prob...

Cease your weeping! he said. It is I, Loki, here to rescue you!Idunn glared at him with red-rimmed eyes. It is you who are the source of my troubles. she said.Well, perhaps. But that was so long ago....

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just .

Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of a sort, in which the only boundaries are those of the imagination. I do not...

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read le...

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

We all—adults and children, writers and readers—have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which...

Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.

I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his hair, it is very blond, very light, and people say, he is the good one. And my hair it is very...

Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future...