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Neil Gaiman Quotes

born 1960 England

Neil Richard Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, and comics.

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Also known as: Gaiman, Gaiman, Neil

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148 quotes

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

January magazine interview (2002)

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

Jerusalem, thought Morrison, was like a deep pool, where time had settled too thickly.

Trigger Warning (2015)

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

The Graveyard Book (2008)

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

American Gods (2001)

People would fight over who owns a poisonous desert, if that desert was Jerusalem.

Trigger Warning (2015)

Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them.

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.

Where do you get your ideas? (1997)

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.

Norse Mythology (2017)

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

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.

Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. Such is my motto.

Trigger Warning (2015)

If you make it best SF book of the 1960s, I'll go along with it.

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.

Even the gods cannot change destiny.

Norse Mythology (2017)

Still, no use crying over unspilt milk, and you can’t mend an omelette without unbreaking a few eggs.

Trigger Warning (2015)

“Come to Jerusalem and go mad,” said Morrison. “Not much of an advertising slogan.”

Trigger Warning (2015)

I think...I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

Fragile Things (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neil Gaiman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.