Neil Gaiman quotes

Neil Gaiman is a British author celebrated for his works in fantasy, horror, and graphic novels. His stories, including "American Gods" and "The Sandman," have found worldwide acclaim. He has inspired generations of readers with his imaginative storytelling and unique voice. Here are 360 of his quotes:

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. (Neil Gaiman)

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

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I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

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I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us and we must walk that road to the end.

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There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. (Neil Gaiman)

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

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I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

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"You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

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Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction ... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.

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The world is always ending, for someone.

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The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names. (Neil Gaiman)

Bod said, "I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said, and then he paused, and thought. "I want everything."

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In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

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I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

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We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

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Neil Gaiman

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Occupation: British Author
Born: November 10, 1960
Quotes count: 360
Wikipedia: Neil Gaiman

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