Important Quotes by Neil Gaiman

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

— Neil Gaiman

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

— Neil Gaiman

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

— Neil Gaiman

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

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched…

— Neil Gaiman

None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The…

— Neil Gaiman

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for…

— Neil Gaiman

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among…

— Neil Gaiman

It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune…

— Neil Gaiman

“Or how it feels to be more important than kings and queens, than presidents or prime ministers or heroes, to be sure…

— Neil Gaiman

I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have…

— Neil Gaiman

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to…

— Neil Gaiman

Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared…

— Neil Gaiman

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives,…

— 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 was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of…

— Neil Gaiman

In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow…

— Neil Gaiman

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I…

— Neil Gaiman

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there…

— Neil Gaiman

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are…

— Neil Gaiman

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read…

— Neil Gaiman

“You’re also finding out something as you read that will be vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s…

— Neil Gaiman

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of…

— Neil Gaiman

The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever…

— Neil Gaiman

Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to…

— Neil Gaiman

The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real…

— Neil Gaiman