Top 100 Gaiman Quotes
#1. Though I don't have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans - the land makes them become Americans. You see it happening all the time when you travel around America.
Michael Moorcock
#2. Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.
Edward Carey
#3. He's this Goth dude, can control people." "Goth, like a Visigoth German Viking of the middle ages, or a Neil Gaiman-looking, Robert Smith, make-up-and-moonbeams Cure fan?" "What's a Neil Gaiman?" "You're an idiot.
Charles De Lint
#4. From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.
Jim Lee
#5. It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, "This is impossible."
I'd gotten the hang of it now.
-Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (comics adaptation by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry)
Mike Carey
#6. In the future, when Joss Whedon and I are best friends and hanging out together in my tree fort, I hope Neil Gaiman comes over too.
Patrick Rothfuss
#7. Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
Tamora Pierce
#8. Tolkien's words and sentences seemed like natural things, like rock formations or waterfalls, and wanting to write like Tolkien would have been, for me, like wanting to blossom like a cherry tree or climb a tree like a squirrel or rain like a thunderstorm. - Gaiman on J. R. R. Tolkien
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#9. NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001
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#10. Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."
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#11. Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.
Amanda Palmer
#12. 'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.
Henry Selick
#13. I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#14. Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman
Kyle Cassidy
#15. You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.
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#16. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold
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#17. That was the April my father learned not to trust ducks.
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#18. I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.
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#19. Then, and only then, do they see me. But they do not always know what they have seen.
I see you as a code to be broken, or a puzzle to be cracked. Or a jig-saw puzzle, to be put together. I walk through your life, and I stand motionless at the edge of my own life.
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#20. Once you've written a book, it belongs to everyone, and they are all allowed to have opinions, and the spectrum of opinions is the spectrum of humanity.
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#21. It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.
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#22. THE MAGICIAN
They asked St. Germain's manservant if his master was truly a thousand years old, as it was rumored he had claimed.
'How would I know?" the man replied. "I have only been in the master's employ for three hundred years.
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#23. It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."
Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.
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#24. All things want to open. You must feel
that need, and use it ...
And then, suddenly, she understands, and,
somewhere in her heart, she lets it be what it wants to be ... and it opens.
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#25. When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It's scientific. That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.
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#26. I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
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#27. It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.
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#28. I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
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#29. It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.'
'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.'
'You can hear radio waves?'
'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.
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#30. Been there, Remiel. Done that. Wore the T-Shirt, ate the burger, bought the original cast album, choreographed the legions of the damned and orchestrated the screaming.
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#31. I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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#32. Could he be walking in circles? Maybe he would just walk and walk and walk until the warmers and the candy bars ran out and then sit down and never get up again.
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#33. The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it before I've had the chance to find out about it.
-Adam to DEATH & the 4 horsepeople of the Apocalypse
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#34. We are gathered here at the end of what Bradbury called the October Country: a state of mind as much as it is a time. All the harvests are in, the frost is on the ground, there's mist in the crisp night air and it's time to tell ghost stories.
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#35. If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
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#36. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't." I
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#37. Within my hearing you have spoken of the beauty of this small city. How standing inside the stained-glass confection of the old church was like being imprisoned inside a kaleidoscope of jewels. It was like being in the heart of the sun.
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#38. Rubbish!" screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall. "Junk!" She continued. "Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe, and useless piles of shit. You know you want it.
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#39. Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.
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#40. And on the subject of naming animals, can I just say how happy I was to discover that the word yeti, literally translated, apparently means "that thing over there."
("Quick, brave Himalayan Guide - what's that thing over there?"
"Yeti."
"I see.")
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#42. Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?"
Dream: "There isn't one."
Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was.
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#43. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
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#44. Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile.
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#46. Why us, goddammit? Why are you doing this stuff to us? You're going to kill us!"
"Why? Because I can.
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#47. But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
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#48. Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.
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#49. Once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed and breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole,' and they would become whole, not be broken people, not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.
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#50. I may be dead but I'm a dead witch. And we don't forget.
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#51. On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how deeply they sleep.
Heimdall will blow Gjallerhorn only once, at the end of all things, Ragnarok.
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#52. We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.
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#53. EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
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#54. She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.
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#55. There are many for whom the lure of gold outweighs the beauty of a rainbow.
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#56. We don't do spells," she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. "We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't hold with none of that. She says it's common.
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#57. Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.
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#58. If you can't be happy where you are, you can't be happy anywhere
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#59. I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.
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#60. A graveyard is not normally a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy,
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#61. The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.'
'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow.
'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.
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#62. Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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#63. You're going back?" asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. "You're really leaving? But. You're my guardian."
"I was you're guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect.
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#64. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.
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#65. Liberty," he continued, wrinkling his nose at the used condom that lay on the bottom flight of steps, toeing it to the side of the stairs with distaste. "Someone could slip on that. Break their necks," he muttered, interrupting himself. "Like a banana peel, only with bad taste and irony thrown in.
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#66. You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard that we can keep you safe. This is where you live and this is where those who love you can be found. Outside would not be safe for you. Not yet.
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#67. The Marquis had known whom he had wanted not to be, when he was a boy. He had definitely not wanted to be like Peregrine. He had not wanted to be like anyone at all. He had, instead, wanted to be elegant, elusive, brilliant and, above all things, he had wanted to be unique.
Just like Peregrine.
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#68. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
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#69. Did that happen?" asked Shadow. "Did what happen, shit-for-brains?" asked Mr. Nancy. "The hall. The fire. Tiger balls. Riding the Carousel.
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#70. A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.
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#71. He ordered a family pack of chicken, and sat and finished it off without any help from anyone else in his family.
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#72. Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.
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#73. Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.
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#74. I'll die soon. But the last twenty minutes have been the best years of my life.
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#75. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.
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#76. All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.
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#77. I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
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#78. Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don't worry about it.
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#79. One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.
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#80. I'm not scared of falling,' he told himself. 'The bit I'm scared of is the bit where you stop falling, and start being dead.
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#81. Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?"
"No, Matthew. What do they say?"
"The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.
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#82. You have your milk," he said. "Where there is milk, there is hope.
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#83. You're the star," said Tristran, comprehension dawning. "And you're a clodpoll," said the girl, bitterly, "and a ninny, a numbskull, a lackwit and a coxcomb!
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#84. He raised the hammer and slammed it down on Skrymir's forehead. Skrymir opened one eye sleepily. "I think a leaf just fell on my head and woke me up," he said.
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#85. Nobody is ever given more to shoulder than he or she can bear.
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#86. It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.
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#87. She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.
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#88. And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art.
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#89. For a moment, upon waking, he had NO idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if he were free to be whatever he wanted to be: he could be anyone at all, able to try on any identity; he could be a man or a woman; a rat or a bird, a monster or a god.
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#90. He loved me. I do not doubt that. In hindsight, I do not believe that I loved him. I simply felt his love for me, burning and all-consuming, and reflected it back, as the cold light of the moon reflects the light of the sun. I did not know that at the time. I thought I loved him.
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#91. Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
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#92. You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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#93. HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY.
And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to drop chilly knowledge straight into his brain.
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#94. It was crooked," said Shadow. "All of it. None of it was for real. It was just a set-up for a massacre." "Exactly," said Wednesday's voice from the shadows. "It was crooked. But it was the only game in town.
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#95. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.
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#96. A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.
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#97. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.
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#98. 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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#100. He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.
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