Neil Gaiman Quotes
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However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.
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There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.
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Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
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I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
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I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered.
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It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.
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Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.
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I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
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I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'
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If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
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People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.
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Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.
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But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
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How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?
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Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.
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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 Swedes. You know what I mean?" "No, Matthew. What do they say?" "The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.
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People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.
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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.
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The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.
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I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.
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We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.
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Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.
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They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.
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