“But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And that life is what happens when you’re alive, and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And the state of his bathroom -- I'm not one to gossip, but there are things crusted on his sink that have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, it goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead and otherwise in this story are fictional or used in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s what you were trying to say, isn’t it? I mean, I think … mostly we’re too busy living to stop and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you cannot have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She'd run her life according to the Prophecies and now there were no more Prophecies. She must be feeling like a train… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you sit down and think about it sensibly , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Living and seizing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence lies elsewhere.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The face of a man who had sipped life's vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. — 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
