Night Quotes by Neil Gaiman

Black as night, sweet as sin.

— Neil Gaiman

“Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.”

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All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

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It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my…

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“The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture…

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“Look, I don't know why this happened to me. But it's hard. You know why dead people only go out at night,…

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Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked…

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“You know why dead people only go out at night, puppy? Because it’s easier to pass for real, in the dark. And…

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“Can you be brave?' I did not know. I did not think so. It seemed to me that all I had done…

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Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath,…

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He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss…

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Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by…

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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…

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

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If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the…

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One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning…

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There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that…

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There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and…

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There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out…

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Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down…

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“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but…

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There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist…

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My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy…

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“Now,” she told them, “now is the time to be afraid of the dark.” Richard knew that something was about to creep…

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Repeat after me, there are the living and the dead, there are day-folk and night-folk, there are ghouls and mist-walkers, there are…

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As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during…

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“Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun…

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He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful…

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Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were…

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