Neil Gaiman Quotes

The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.

The universe knows someone is missing, and slowly it attempts to replace him.

The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the...

There are choices, she thought, when she had sat long enough. There are always choices.

There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of bee...

There are things that upset us. That’s not quite what we’re talking about here, though. I’m thinking rather about those images or words or ideas that drop like trapdoors beneath us, throwing us out of...

There are things you cannot throw away, things you cannot leave for your loved ones to find when you are gone. Things you have to burn.

There is nothing down here,' said the pale thing indistinctly. 'Nothing but dust and damp and forgetting.

There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other peop...

There was a passport in his bag, money in his pocket. There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there...

There was still the wreckage of that man in there somewhere. That was what made him so terrible, and so sad.

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...

What we read as adults should be read, I think, with no warnings or alerts beyond, perhaps: enter at your own risk.

When angels go bad, Richard, they go worse than anyone. Remember, Lucifer used to be an angel.

You don’t discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone h...

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never...