“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You know,” he said. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I know how Gods begin, Roger. We start as Dreams. Then we walk out of Dreams into the Land. We are worshiped… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“These are the gods who have passed out of memory. Even their names are lost. The people who worshiped them are as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving. I know… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Well?" said Loki. "What about you, Heimdall? Do you have any suggestions?" "I do," said Heimdall. "But you won't like it." Thor… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“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,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share