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Book Quotes by Neil Gaiman

108 Book quotes by Neil Gaiman

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A bookshelf filled with alphabetized volumes shows a child's pride in order. The quotes remind us that books don’t write themselves; they need thought, research, and hard work before a story can go beyond its opening. They also describe books as real places we can visit, where a contented author’s voice can make the pages feel like home.

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“I was their first book.”

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Libraries are our friends.

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Books were safer than other people anyway.

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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

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“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

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Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

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

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Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

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“Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.”

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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

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“He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe.”

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I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually…

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than…

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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of…

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Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths…

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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different…

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The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

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I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in…

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The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

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“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer…

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The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven…

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This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna…

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My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find…

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“There are so many little trig~ gers out there, being squeezed in the darkness even as I write this. This book is…

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I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more…

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I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware…

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I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over…

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When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People…

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“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end…

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Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer…

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There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven…

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“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there…

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I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write…

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Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you…

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“I sat at the bottom of the garden, and I wrote the last page of my book, and I knew that I…

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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

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I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

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“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot , June 18, 2013)”

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“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…

“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,…

“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

So many things to see, people to do.

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written…

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

What do stars do? They shine.

“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”