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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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

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Nothing's ever the same," she said. Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

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I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

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I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer.

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Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

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Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and ...

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Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

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I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.

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The universe is amply supplied with night.

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The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.

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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

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I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush... "To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More...

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Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

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The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you? Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come ...

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Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

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No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff w...

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The only water in the forest is the River.

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I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?

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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 memories and puns and lost hopes.

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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 will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.

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Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and event...

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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