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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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I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.

Norse Mythology (2017)

I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die.

American Gods (2001)

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

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

This is the kind of thing you wonder about when you make up things for a living.

Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

Little one, I would like to see anyone — prophet, king or God — persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time.

Life — and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison — is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Coraline (2002)

“There are those who think it’s devil worship,” said Oliver. “And I think they are wrong. But then, one man’s god is another’s devil. Eh?”

Trigger Warning (2015)

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)

"So computers are tools of the devil?" thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him.

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.

“Were you always like this?”
“Like what?”
“A madman. With a time machine.”
“Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine.”

Trigger Warning (2015)

The average daytime speed of a vehicle through the streets of central London has not changed in four hundred years. It’s still under ten miles an hour.

Fragile Things (2006)

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

Signal to Noise (1992)

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

Neverwhere (1996)

"How do I know you’ll keep your word?" asked Coraline.

Coraline (2002)

Attribution

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