Different Quotes by Neil Gaiman

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

— Neil Gaiman

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

— Neil Gaiman

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Neil Gaiman

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak…

— Neil Gaiman

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

— Neil Gaiman

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.…

— Neil Gaiman

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or…

— Neil Gaiman

All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of…

— Neil Gaiman

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out…

— Neil Gaiman

I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Neil Gaiman

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not…

— Neil Gaiman

Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and…

— Neil Gaiman

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you.…

— Neil Gaiman

I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for…

— Neil Gaiman

There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist…

— Neil Gaiman

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and…

— Neil Gaiman

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap.…

— Neil Gaiman

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots…

— Neil Gaiman

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time…

— Neil Gaiman

The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and…

— Neil Gaiman

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those…

— Neil Gaiman

We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world…

— Neil Gaiman

If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to…

— Neil Gaiman

There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going…

— Neil Gaiman