Neil Gaiman Quotes

I gain my freedom on the day the moon loses her daughter, if that occurs in a week when two Mondays come together. I await it with patience.

I have no plans to love you, said Coraline. No matter what. You can't make me love you.

I know it's crooked, but it's the only game in town.

I like stories where women save themselves.

I like things to be story-shaped.

I made a list of inventions the world would be better off without and, one by one, I uninvented them all.

I once made up a story as a wedding present for some friends. It was about a couple who were given a story as a wedding present. It was not a reassuring story. Having made up the story, I decided that...

I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground.

I sometimes imagine I would like my ashes to be scattered in a library. But then the librarians would just have to come in early the next morning to sweep them up again, before the people got there.

I wish I could purr, too. I would have purred then.

If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are twin cities, divided by a river of black water. The Horror place is a rather more dangerous place, or it should be: you can walk around Fantasy...

It always ends. That's what gives it value.

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it we...

It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices.

It's like people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

It's perfectly simple, said Wednesday. In other countries, over the years, people recognized the places of power. Sometimes it would be a natural formation, sometimes it would just be a place that was...

Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith, said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. Loki, he said. Loki Lie-smith.You're slow, said Loki, but you get there in the end. And his lips twisted i...

Now all we have to worry about is all the other books, and, of course, life, which is huge and complicated and will not warn you before it hurts you.

You eternals have long lives, but short memories. The changing people have short lives, but we do not forget.