Ifs Quotes by Neil Gaiman

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

— Neil Gaiman

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

— Neil Gaiman

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

— Neil Gaiman

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

— Neil Gaiman

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

— Neil Gaiman

If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do

— Neil Gaiman

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

— Neil Gaiman

What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

— Neil Gaiman

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of…

— Neil Gaiman

I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in…

— Neil Gaiman

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they…

— Neil Gaiman

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed…

— Neil Gaiman

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were…

— Neil Gaiman

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is…

— 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…

— Neil Gaiman

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if,…

— Neil Gaiman

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What…

— Neil Gaiman

I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going…

— Neil Gaiman

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if…

— Neil Gaiman

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with…

— 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

There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a…

— Neil Gaiman

If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they…

— Neil Gaiman

I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If…

— Neil Gaiman

Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— 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

I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and…

— Neil Gaiman

You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is…

— Neil Gaiman

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

— Neil Gaiman

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no…

— Neil Gaiman

I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about…

— Neil Gaiman

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,…

— Neil Gaiman

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to…

— Neil Gaiman

If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

— Neil Gaiman

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly…

— Neil Gaiman

With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh…

— Neil Gaiman

The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands…

— Neil Gaiman

The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer.…

— Neil Gaiman