Wells Quotes by Neil Gaiman

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

— Neil Gaiman

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with…

— Neil Gaiman

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

— Neil Gaiman

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

— Neil Gaiman

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

— Neil Gaiman

Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're…

— Neil Gaiman

Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something…

— Neil Gaiman

She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that…

— Neil Gaiman

He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The…

— Neil Gaiman

The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might…

— Neil Gaiman

Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to…

— Neil Gaiman

Nothin’ wrong with witchfinding. I’d like to be a witchfinder. It’s just, well, you’ve got to take it in turns. Today we’ll…

— Neil Gaiman

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set…

— Neil Gaiman

Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home,…

— Neil Gaiman

You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar…

— Neil Gaiman

In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow…

— Neil Gaiman

The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven…

— Neil Gaiman

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you…

— Neil Gaiman

Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You…

— Neil Gaiman

Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that…

— Neil Gaiman

There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b)…

— Neil Gaiman

Well," he said, "f’r example, if they ask where you’ve come from, you could say ‘Behind me,’and if they asked where you’re…

— Neil Gaiman

I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the…

— Neil Gaiman

Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we…

— Neil Gaiman

There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for…

— Neil Gaiman

Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and…

— Neil Gaiman

As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my…

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She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't…

— Neil Gaiman

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the…

— Neil Gaiman

As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books…

— Neil Gaiman

The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing…

— Neil Gaiman

On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the…

— Neil Gaiman

Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts…

— Neil Gaiman

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

If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary…

— Neil Gaiman

You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of."…

— Neil Gaiman

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside…

— Neil Gaiman

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then…

— Neil Gaiman

Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to…

— Neil Gaiman

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal…

— Neil Gaiman