"Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.












Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

More Neil Gaiman quotes
"I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?
"We owe it to each other to tell stories.
"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of...
"I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer ...
"My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each...
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"Once upon a time,’ is code for ‘I’m lying to you.’ We experience stories as lies and truth at the same time. We learn to empathize with real people vi...
"I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true.
"Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.
"For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
"Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty whe...
"People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.