Quotes by Neil Gaiman

About Neil Gaiman:

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.
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A table for TONIGHT should certainly have been booked years before-perhaps, it was implied, by Richard's parents. A table for TONIGHT was impossible: if the pope, the prime minister, and the president of France arrived this evening without a confirme...

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What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

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Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.

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I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?

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The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

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After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...

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There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,” she explained. “There’s a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere—it doesn’t all get used up at once.” “I may still...

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What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.

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I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats

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What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

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It's a weapon, I understand?" "In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is.

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Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

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The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street n...

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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.

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Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

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To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

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Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

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I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, an...

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Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with the Professor Challenger stories, when the bull-nec...

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It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.

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Author Bio

  • NameNeil Gaiman
  • DescriptionEnglish fantasy writer
  • BornNovember 10, 1960
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionBeekeeper; Writer; Novelist; Journalist; Screenwriter; Blogger
  • WorksThe Sandman; American Gods; Stardust; Coraline; The Graveyard Book; Good Omens; The Ocean At The End Of The Lane
  • AwardsNebula Award; Newbery Medal