Long Quotes by Neil Gaiman

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn…

— Neil Gaiman

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but…

— Neil Gaiman

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I…

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For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

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As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

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It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were…

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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

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

— Neil Gaiman

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them.…

— Neil Gaiman

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in…

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Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that…

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Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the…

— Neil Gaiman

We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a…

— Neil Gaiman

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop…

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I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors…

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He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and…

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Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer…

— Neil Gaiman

Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists…

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There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped…

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

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You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just…

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I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other…

— Neil Gaiman

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

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As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

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I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long…

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Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone.…

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He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days…

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in…

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People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just…

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How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,…

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I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be…

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If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets,…

— Neil Gaiman

He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner,…

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I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being…

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Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they…

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Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain…

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What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile,…

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The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre.…

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There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going…

— Neil Gaiman

“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you…

— Neil Gaiman