--- title: "7 Huge Quotes By Neil Gaiman" description: "7 Huge quotes by Neil Gaiman. Plus more from Neil Gaiman and more Huge sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/neil-gaiman-29_atoms_we-have-an-obligation-to-imagine-it-is-e_244895.jpg" --- > [We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/we-have-an-obligation-to-imagine-it-is-easy-to-pretend-that-nobody/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/neil-gaiman-29_atoms_we-have-an-obligation-to-imagine-it-is-e_244895.jpg) > [Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/sometimes-i-think-that-ideas-float-through-the-atmosphere-like-huge/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/575/neil-gaiman-29_atmosphere_sometimes-i-think-that-ideas-float-throu_1292231.jpg) > [When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/when-i-was-a-kid-and-a-young-man-i-read-everything-when-i-was-about/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/neil-gaiman-29_amount_when-i-was-a-kid-and-a-young-man-i-read_1361298.jpg) > [When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/when-i-was-about-ten-my-favourite-article-in-the-huge-and-mouldering/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ec/neil-gaiman-29_articles_when-i-was-about-ten-my-favourite-articl_1394710.jpg) > [Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/trees-there-were-old-as-trees-can-be-huge-and-grasping-with-hearts/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/neil-gaiman-29_black_trees-there-were-old-as-trees-can-be-hug_1732281.jpg) > [I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-was-a-voracious-reader-and-i-could-never-understand-why-comics-were/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fb/neil-gaiman-29_books_i-was-a-voracious-reader-and-i-could-nev_2036309.jpg) > [London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/london-grew-into-something-huge-and-contradictory-it-was-a-good-place/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/neil-gaiman-29_cities_london-grew-into-something-huge-and-cont_2651106.jpg) ## Other authors on Huge ## More by Neil Gaiman > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/people-talk-about-books-that-write-themselves-and-it-s-a-lie-books/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/like-all-sentient-beings-fat-charlie-had-a-weirdness-quotient-for/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/shadow-crawled-across-the-floor-to-the-yellow-foam-rubber-pad-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [ “\[T\]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/t-hey-could-not-help-being-amused-every-time-another-little-human/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [So many things to see, people to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/so-many-things-to-see-people-to-do/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/three-may-keep-a-secret-if-two-of-them-are-dead-ben-franklin/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-need-more-than-a-beginning-if-you-re-going-to-start-a-book-if-all/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-can-tell-the-date-of-an-old-science-fiction-novel-by-every-word/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-quickest-way-is-sometimes-the-longest/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/they-were-spells-spelled-with-words-to-make-worlds-waiting-for-me-in/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/finish-what-you-re-writing-whatever-you-have-to-do-to-finish-it/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [What do stars do? They shine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/what-do-stars-do-they-shine/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/what-asked-mr-croup-do-you-want-what-asked-the-marquis-de-carabas-a/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-get-on-with-your-own-life-lettie-gave-it-to-you-you-just-have-to/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/eyes-will-not-see-you-minds-will-not-hold-you-where-you-are-is/) [neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/huge/neil-gaiman/#itemlist", "name": "7 Huge Quotes By Neil Gaiman", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. 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