Neil Gaiman Quotes

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors c...

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...

Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ...

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It take...

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

As we write we summon little demons.

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (who...

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...

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

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by ...

She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She ...

So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, ...

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other...

Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into ...

Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first phot...

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the nume...

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor...

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with ...

I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus...

There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into hi...

There are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have ...

They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew tha...

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.Yeah, everybody wonders. And so...

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distan...

He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-b...

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...

Yeah, you and me, we can ride on a starIf you stay with me, girlWe can rule the worldYeah, you and m...

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we kn...

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzlin...

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like havi...

It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south d...

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I ...

When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories.

I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give...

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...

It is a sea of blood. We come from the sea, Tim; our blood is salt, and strange tides ebb and flow w...

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.Magic is a ...

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity o...

There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private l...

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to b...

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.It's RUBBISH,...

If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust...

I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, an...

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air th...

You're weird,' she said. 'You don't have any friends.''I didn't come here for friends,' said Bod tru...

You are almost never cool to your children.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from ...

And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoe...

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t...

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, ...

Liza Hempstock, who had been Bod's friend for the last six years, was different in another way; she ...

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will fi...

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caug...

How old are you?""About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did," Bod said, b...

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things...

Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken......

If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him,” Liza tells Bod.

Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and i...

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide op...

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are librar...

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

...Come home, Bod.' ‘I think . . . I said things to Silas. He’ll be angry.’ ‘If he didn’t care about...

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,...

Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand...

Leave no path untaken.

You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious...

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do...

You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because ...

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream...

There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thin...

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream...

There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place...

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's p...

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now mo...

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a l...

Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life......

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i...

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...

Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ...

And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here...

We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen w...

Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper w...

And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coralin...

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times...

Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.