Neil Gaiman

"Telling stories to my children that I was, in my turn, told by my parents and grandparents makes me feel part of something special and odd, part of the continuous stream of life itself."

- Neil Gaiman

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

- Neil Gaiman

"Everybody is going to be dead one day, just give them time."

- Neil Gaiman

"Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism."

- Neil Gaiman

"By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run, and the world would wake into itself again."

- Neil Gaiman

"That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed."

- Neil Gaiman

"Take it step by step, and you’ll get where you want to be."

- Neil Gaiman

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something."

- Neil Gaiman

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something."

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Neil Gaiman

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

- Neil Gaiman

"Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken."

- Neil Gaiman

"She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here."

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Neil Gaiman

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

- Neil Gaiman

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

- Neil Gaiman

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Neil Gaiman

"Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here."

- Neil Gaiman

"Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here. Make good art."

- Neil Gaiman

"The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules."

- Neil Gaiman

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

- Neil Gaiman

"Ideas come from daydreaming. They come from drifting."

- Neil Gaiman

"Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes."

- Neil Gaiman

"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."

- Neil Gaiman

"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

"If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something."

- Neil Gaiman

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."

- Neil Gaiman

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can."

- Neil Gaiman

"But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept."

- Neil Gaiman

"Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island."

- Neil Gaiman

"You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it."

- Neil Gaiman

"Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished."

- Neil Gaiman

"If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something."

- Neil Gaiman

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift."

- Neil Gaiman

"I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. It's tosh. It's snobbery and it's foolishness. We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung, into literacy."

- Neil Gaiman

"So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would."

- Neil Gaiman

"Words can be worrisome, people complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear."

- Neil Gaiman

"Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets."

- Neil Gaiman

"Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever."

- Neil Gaiman

"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time."

- Neil Gaiman

"Whatever it is youre scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes next year and forever."

- Neil Gaiman

"I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."

- Neil Gaiman

"Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt."

- Neil Gaiman

"There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous."

- Neil Gaiman

"“A philosopher once asked, ‘Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?’ Pointless, really … ’Do the stars gaze back?’ Now that’s a question.”"

- Neil Gaiman

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."

- Neil Gaiman

"His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life."

- Neil Gaiman

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one."

- Neil Gaiman