Neil Gaiman is one of the most celebrated contemporary authors, known for his imaginative storytelling and unique blend of fantasy, mythology, and reality.
From novels like American Gods and Neverwhere to beloved children’s books such as Coraline and The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman’s works captivate readers of all ages.
His writing often explores themes of dreams, magic, and the power of stories, inspiring countless fans and writers worldwide.
Beyond books, Neil Gaiman has contributed to comics, films, and television, cementing his legacy as a master storyteller with an enduring influence on modern literature.
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“Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.” — Neil Gaiman
“You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.” — Neil Gaiman
“Jameson Irish whiskey: a twenty-dollar ticket out of this place.” — Neil Gaiman
“But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.” — Neil Gaiman
“Small world,” said Coraline. “It’s big enough for her,” said the cat. “Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.” — Neil Gaiman
“For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.” — Neil Gaiman
“I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.” — Neil Gaiman
“There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death.” — Neil Gaiman
“That’s sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they’re a girl.” — Neil Gaiman
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.” — Neil Gaiman
“I make things up and write them down.” — Neil Gaiman
“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.” — Neil Gaiman
“Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ’what kind of tea?” — Neil Gaiman
“Behind the curtain’s mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.” — Neil Gaiman
“I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I’m doing an architectural diagram of something.” — Neil Gaiman
“All bookshelves are magical.” — Neil Gaiman
“If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him.” — Neil Gaiman
“Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.” — Neil Gaiman
“Real life doesn’t have to be convincing, but fiction does.” — Neil Gaiman
“It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.” — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman Quotes on Writing
“I couldn’t get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.” — Neil Gaiman
“I love CGI if it’s invisible. I don’t like it when it’s there and obvious.” — Neil Gaiman
“Really, he thought, if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?” — Neil Gaiman
“For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.” — Neil Gaiman
“What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?” — Neil Gaiman
“A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people’s heads. Books are good that way.” — Neil Gaiman
“We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.” — Neil Gaiman
“Where does contagion end and art begin?” — Neil Gaiman
“Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?” — Neil Gaiman
“Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.” — Neil Gaiman
“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.” — Neil Gaiman
“I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.” — Neil Gaiman
“Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.” — Neil Gaiman
“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.” — Neil Gaiman
“You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.” — Neil Gaiman
“Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It’s that easy.” — Neil Gaiman
“Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.” — Neil Gaiman
“I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something’s in the world that wasn’t there before.” — Neil Gaiman
“Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.” — Neil Gaiman
“Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman Quotes New Year
“When you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.” — Neil Gaiman
“Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.” — Neil Gaiman
“I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.” — Neil Gaiman
“Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” — Neil Gaiman
“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.” — Neil Gaiman
“You never learn how to write a novel,” he told me. “You only learn to write the novel you’re on.” — Neil Gaiman
“Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.” — Neil Gaiman
“Dreams are hopes, and echoes of hope.” — Neil Gaiman
“I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly.” — Neil Gaiman
“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.” — Neil Gaiman
“Here you go, she said. I don’t need it anymore. I’m very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people’s death.” — Neil Gaiman
“If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.” — Neil Gaiman
“It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is.” — Neil Gaiman
“Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.” — Neil Gaiman
“Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.” — Neil Gaiman
“Because if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.” — Neil Gaiman
“I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.” — Neil Gaiman
“Humanity is evil – civilization is the scum that forms on the surface, but beneath, humanity consists of brutes and animals.” — Neil Gaiman
“Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.” — Neil Gaiman
“I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.” — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman Quotes About Love
“A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.” — Neil Gaiman
“I know that this is the internet, and we’re all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn’t hurt to try to be nice.” — Neil Gaiman
“Inevitabilmente trattenuti dal mondo.” — Neil Gaiman
“For the record, I don’t expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I’m a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.” — Neil Gaiman
“Why are we talking about this good and evil? They’re just names for sides. We know that.” — Neil Gaiman
“To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.” — Neil Gaiman
“Hey, that’s life, flick it off if you can’t take a joke.” — Neil Gaiman
“There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.” — Neil Gaiman
“Can’t make an omelette without killing a few people.” — Neil Gaiman
“Without our stories we are incomplete.” — Neil Gaiman
“It’s Coraline, not Caroline. Coraline.′ said Coraline.” — Neil Gaiman
“We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.” — Neil Gaiman
“I am only alive when I perceive a challenge.” — Neil Gaiman
“You can’t make me love you.” — Neil Gaiman
“I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel.” — Neil Gaiman
“From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.” — Neil Gaiman
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.” — Neil Gaiman
“You shouldn’t trust the storyteller; only trust the story.” — 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 to throw things away eventually.” — Neil Gaiman
“The Sky was red, but not warm red of a sunset. This was an angry, glowering red, the colour of an infected wound.” — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman Quotes About Life
“The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.” — Neil Gaiman
“You don’t get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.” — Neil Gaiman
“It’s always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.” — Neil Gaiman
“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.” — Neil Gaiman
“For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.” — Neil Gaiman
“Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.” — Neil Gaiman
“Goodbyes are overrated.” — Neil Gaiman
“Rebirth always follows death.” — Neil Gaiman
“I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn’t a proper place. I like in betweens.” — Neil Gaiman
“Sexton: I think the whole world’s gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It’s always like this. You probably just don’t get out enough.” — Neil Gaiman
“Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There’s the magic of it.” — Neil Gaiman
“You can’t run away from home without destroying somebody’s world.” — Neil Gaiman
“I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.” — Neil Gaiman
“I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.” — Neil Gaiman
“Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.” — Neil Gaiman
“I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.” — Neil Gaiman
“As sure as water’s wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.” — Neil Gaiman
“It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.” — Neil Gaiman
“He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.” — Neil Gaiman
“Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.” — Neil Gaiman
Best Neil Gaiman Quotes
“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.” — Neil Gaiman
“Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. Instead, wait until the hour is propitious.” — Neil Gaiman
“The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.” — Neil Gaiman
“The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. ‘Take comfort in this,’ he whispered. ‘Th’art alive. Thou livest.” — Neil Gaiman
“We often confuse what we wish for with what is.” — Neil Gaiman
“Of course it was Loki. It’s always Loki.” — Neil Gaiman
“You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.” — Neil Gaiman
“You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.” — Neil Gaiman
“Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken” “Leave no path untaken,” repeated Bod. “A difficult challenge, but I can try my best.” — Neil Gaiman
“All fire burns, little baby. You’ll learn.” — Neil Gaiman
“I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” — Neil Gaiman
“It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.” — Neil Gaiman
“You know I love you,? said the other mother flatly. ‘You have a very funny way of showing it,’ said Coraline.” — Neil Gaiman
“There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.” — Neil Gaiman
“Odin’s eye remains in Mimir’s well, preserved by the waters that feed the world ash, seeing nothing, seeing everything. Time.” — Neil Gaiman
“The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.” — Neil Gaiman
“Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?” — Neil Gaiman
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.” — Neil Gaiman
“Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.” — Neil Gaiman
“I love stories where women save themselves.” — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman Quotes About Reading
“I think I’ve got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?” — Neil Gaiman
“Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.” — Neil Gaiman
“Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And then realized it wasn’t what you wanted at all?” — Neil Gaiman
“Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.” — Neil Gaiman
“How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?” — Neil Gaiman
“One thing I’ve learned: you can know anything, it’s all there, you just have to find it.” — Neil Gaiman
“He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.” — Neil Gaiman
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.” — Neil Gaiman
“You’re brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don’t care if you are imaginary.” — Neil Gaiman
“The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.” — Neil Gaiman
“I think most things are pretty magical, and that it’s less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.” — Neil Gaiman
“Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.” — Neil Gaiman
“Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.” — Neil Gaiman
“If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.” — Neil Gaiman
“Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn’t she the one who killed her children?” — Neil Gaiman
“Friday’s a free day. A woman’s day.” — Neil Gaiman
“The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.” — Neil Gaiman
“You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.” — Neil Gaiman
“Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.” — Neil Gaiman
“The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.” — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman Quotes Fairy Tales
“We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall.” — Neil Gaiman
“The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.” — Neil Gaiman
“Going off the grid is always good for me. It’s the way that I’ve started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.” — Neil Gaiman
“I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars…” — Neil Gaiman
“Erwachsene halten sich auf Wegen. Kinder gehen auf Kundschaft.” — Neil Gaiman
“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.” — Neil Gaiman
“He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.” — Neil Gaiman
“Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.” — Neil Gaiman
“Are there any ponies in this?” asked my sister. “I thought there would be ponies by now.” — Neil Gaiman
“I’m somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.” — Neil Gaiman
“I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.” — Neil Gaiman
“Whenever it rains you will think of her.” — Neil Gaiman
“If you can’t be happy where you are, you can’t be happy anywhere.” — Neil Gaiman
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