If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ Libraries on the Front Lines , ALA interview 2011]” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image