Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It's true what they say, thought Shadow. If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Which way would you walk—the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?” “Truths,” he said. “I’ve come too far… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it." ( Online journal… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter. Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend. This country needs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I thought about it. “Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that the truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one way only, and that way is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is… — neil gaiman Copy Share Image
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall;… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk—the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?” Shadow hesitated.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take. — 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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
