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 Copy Share Image
Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Living and seizing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence lies elsewhere.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There are always places to go further down, even when you've been taken off the board; life goes on, even if it's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly. "Live," said the monk. "You shall be revenged," said the fox.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Gradually he realized that the Tube map was a handy fiction that made life easier but bore no resemblance to the reality… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There are clouds between us and them," pointed out Isten of the Hungarians. He had a fine black mustache, a large, dusty… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Richard wrote a diary entry in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Horus is crazy, really bugfuck crazy, spends all his time as a hawk, eats roadkill, what kind of a life is that?” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Your life is your own, Rainie. So is your death. And oblivion...? That's not an option, I'm afraid. -Death” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Now what?” asked Fat Charlie. “Shall we all join hands and contact the living?” — 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