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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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There’s no Hell to spite the sinners.
There’s no Heaven for the blessed. God is not what you imagine.

Trigger Warning (2015)

Look, I'm sorry it's over too. But good things have to end, stories have to end. It's what gives them meaning.

Child, magic exists. There are powers and forces and realms beyond the fields you know.

What we read as adults should be read, I think, with no warnings or alerts beyond, perhaps: enter at your own risk.

Trigger Warning (2015)

If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.

American Gods (2001)

If he is to choose the path of magic then he must choose responsibly, he must know enough about the labyrinth to walk a true path through it.

The Books of Magic : The Invisible Labyrinth (1990)

We are mature, we decide what we read or do not read.

Trigger Warning (2015)

The world is always ending, for someone.

Signal to Noise (1992)

It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.

Norse Mythology (2017)

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

And without those three writers, I would not be here today. And nor, of course, would any of you. I thank you.

Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

San Diego Comicon (2007)

If you actually pay any credence to it, it does make you crazy. So you just kind of smile and think, "Maybe someday I'll review all the reviewers someday." But you probably won't.

It was also, they added, Very Now, which was important in a town in which an hour ago was Ancient History.

Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.

Trigger Warning (2015)

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

Trigger Warning (2015)

The map was gone, and the mapmaker, but the land lives on.

Fragile Things (2006)

“Just go with it. It won’t hurt.”
I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)

New Orleans is a real place, which is more than I can say about most of the cities I’ve lived in, but it’s not a safe place, not a friendly one.

Fragile Things (2006)

"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.

Anansi Boys (2005)

Attribution

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