Top 100 Gaiman's Quotes

#1. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #7392
#2. It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #8906
#3. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #9965
#4. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #10504
#5. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #11846
#6. It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #17243
#7. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #19134
#8. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #20813
#9. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #24636
#10. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #24764
#11. 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.")

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #24909
#12. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #26542
#13. She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #36859
#14. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #40139
#15. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #40614
#16. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #42540
#17. 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!

Neil Gaiman

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#18. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #47899
#19. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #61239
#20. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #67552
#21. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #70625
#22. It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

Neil Gaiman

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#23. 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

Gaiman's Quotes #74074
#24. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #79468
#25. Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Neil Gaiman

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#26. 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.

Neil Gaiman

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#27. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #85276
#28. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #89273
#29. You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #90843
#30. There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #91008
#31. This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #92109
#32. I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #92288
#33. There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #94383
#34. It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #107181
#35. And then they all sang a song called "I've Got a Loverly Bunch of Hard-hairy-wet-white-crunchers," which was an ancient dinosaur song that had apparently been written by Professor Steg's Aunt Button.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #112231
#36. Poe isn't for everyone. He's too heady a draught for that. He may not be for you. But there are secrets to appreciating Poe, and I shall let you in on one of the most important ones: read him aloud

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #112667
#37. My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #116365
#38. It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #145139
#39. What we read as adults should be read, I think, with no warnings or alerts beyond, perhaps: enter at your own risk. We need to find out what fiction is, what it means, to us, an experience that is going to be unlike anyone else's experience of the story.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #145608
#40. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent." The

Neil Gaiman

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

Neil Gaiman

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#42. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #148866
#43. It's not that they're small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It's not that they're small. It's that we're so far away.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #151076
#44. It's a piece of piss. You know what I do? I just get up and read the paper. Then people ask questions, and I just bullshit. Actively bullshit, as opposed to passively. That's the best bit. Just bullshitting. Piece of utter piss.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #152545
#45. What are god's?" asked the buffalo man.
"I don't know," said Shadow.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #162196
#46. It's a good thing to have friends with more houses than they have bodies, especially if they're happy to share.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #163353
#47. The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true.

Neil Gaiman

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#48. The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #169862
#49. Fat Charlie thought it highly likely that Rosie's mum went out at night in bat form to suck the blood from sleeping innocents. He had mentioned this theory to Rosie once, but she had failed to see the humor in it. Rosie

Neil Gaiman

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#50. He's just a proper man who likes to fuck other men, that's all.

Neil Gaiman

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#51. Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Neil Gaiman

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#52. Cats don't have shoulders, not like people do. But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that started at the tip of it's tail and ended in a raised movement of its whiskers.

Neil Gaiman

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#53. Reed says that God made a thousand, thousand worlds, each like this one, only different.
I hope there's one of them in which I chose to walk another path. But I fear that in any universe my path will be marked with blood.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #184209
#54. I need to know how you did it it.
I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.
(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #191800
#55. Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #192272
#56. Look...it's not that easy. Let me tell you what you get. You get life, and breath, a world to walk and a path through the world--and the free will to wander the world as you choose.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #192505
#57. I'm a has-been. Who the fuck cares about me?"
Shadows said softly, "You're a god".
Wednesday looked at him sharply. [ ... ] "So?"
"It's a good thing to be a god", said Shadow
"Is it?

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #194997
#58. I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

Neil Gaiman

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#59. But eventually everything was back the way it had been before, except for Lucy's father's second-best tuba, which had sustained severe jam damage.
So Lucy's father sold his second-best tuba and bought a sousaphone instead, which he had always wanted.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #202371
#60. He said, Heaven is not waiting for the good and pure and gentle There's no punishment eternal, there's no Hell for the ungodly Nor is God as you imagine - Saint

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #204011
#61. I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #205031
#62. I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

Neil Gaiman

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#63. Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored.

Neil Gaiman

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#64. And what's a stranger but a friend you haven't met yet?

Neil Gaiman

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#65. Nobody sensible believes in ghosts anyway - that's because they're all such liars.

Neil Gaiman

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#66. She patted him on the arm. "You're fucked up, Mister. But you're cool."
"I believe that's what they call the human condition," said Shadow.

Neil Gaiman

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#67. Hold fast," he called. "Tell me your names, and your stations."
"I am the Lady Door," said Door. "I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch."
"I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard."
"Richard Mayhew," said Richard. "Wet.

Neil Gaiman

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#68. They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him ... to him we no longer speak.

Neil Gaiman

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#69. The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water."
Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.

Neil Gaiman

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#70. Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. "What happened to her?" he asked. "Poor taste in boyfriends," said Jacquel. "It's not always fatal.

Neil Gaiman

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#71. It's what people do. They believe. And when they will not take responsibilities for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations.

Neil Gaiman

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#72. 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

Gaiman's Quotes #233129
#73. My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

Neil Gaiman

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#74. It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

Neil Gaiman

Gaiman's Quotes #235211
#75. I miss you', he admitted.
'I'm here', she said.
'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier then.

Neil Gaiman

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#76. 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

Gaiman's Quotes #253705
#77. You've a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go.

Neil Gaiman

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#78. They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin," said Wednesday. "Frank Lloyd Wrong.

Neil Gaiman

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#79. First time takes forever, and then ever after it's over in a flash?

Neil Gaiman

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#80. In May I received an anonymous Mother's Day card. This puzzled me. I would have noticed if I had ever had children, surely?

Neil Gaiman

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#81. Who the fuck's Herodotus?" Asked the Iceman.

Neil Gaiman

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#82. Inside the pub, Richard's friends continued to celebrate his forthcoming departure with an enthusiasm that, to Richard, was beginning to border on the sinister.

Neil Gaiman

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#83. 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.

Neil Gaiman

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#84. I think you're very nice. I think twinkle's a nice word. So's viridian. I met a lady once who had an imaginary fish.

Neil Gaiman

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#85. Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

Neil Gaiman

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#86. I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

Neil Gaiman

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#87. ..and the truth us not what people want to hear. It's a bad thing, and it troubles people.

Neil Gaiman

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#88. People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

Neil Gaiman

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#89. I'm no longer young as I was, but I can tell you this, you never say no to the opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get half an hour's shut-eye. You follow me?

Neil Gaiman

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#90. But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.

Neil Gaiman

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#91. There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by

Neil Gaiman

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#92. I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on."
"Babes," he told her. "You're dead."
"That's one of those aspects, obviously.

Neil Gaiman

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#93. That's an Anansi story. 'Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.

Neil Gaiman

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#94. Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?"
"Coraline," said Coraline.
"And we don't know each other, do we?"
Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.

Neil Gaiman

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#95. Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.

Neil Gaiman

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#96. It always ends. That's what gives it value.

Neil Gaiman

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#97. If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

Neil Gaiman

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#98. The only things that give it the illusion of being one country are the green-back, The Tonight Show, and McDonald's.

Neil Gaiman

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#99. I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground.

Neil Gaiman

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#100. Everybody dies. Just as everything created is eventually destroyed.

Then what's the point of anything?

The point? Walk the world. Help to feed the hungry, help comfort those in pain. Do what you can to leave the world a better place.

Neil Gaiman

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