Neil Gaiman Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Neil Gaiman on Wise Famous Quotes.
Being brave didn't mean you weren't scared. Being brave meant you were scared, really scared, badly scared, and you did the right thing anyway.
For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.
Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?
People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.
If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you'd be wrong. He'd be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.
It's easier to say true things in the dark. Spider said, "You know what doesn't make sense here?" "Everything?
And then he said, "Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?"
"Different woman," said Mr. Nancy. "Same deal.
"Different woman," said Mr. Nancy. "Same deal.
There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armored crotch and a mirrored face.
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
You didn't bring us here,' Lettie said. 'We came because we wanted to. And I came to give you one last chance to go.
When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one.
The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.
But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is.
The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. 'Take comfort in this,' he whispered. 'Th'art alive. Thou livest.
It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.
Excuse me,' he said. 'I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?'
'Possible, but very unlikely. Why?
'Possible, but very unlikely. Why?
In May I received an anonymous Mother's Day card. This puzzled me. I would have noticed if I had ever had children, surely?
I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.
People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.
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.
I take it this is some obscure West Indian usage of the word 'similar' which means 'nothing at all alike'?
Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. "What happened to her?" he asked. "Poor taste in boyfriends," said Jacquel. "It's not always fatal.
The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.
What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don't you agree?
Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another's, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget.
I'm not happy about any of this," said Thor. "I'm going to kill somebody soon, just to relieve the tension. You'll see.
You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.
Trolls can smell the rainbow, trolls can smell the stars. Trolls can smell the dreams you dreamed before you were ever born.
Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.
Many good people read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions, corrections, encouragement, and information.
This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.
It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.
Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.
For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.