Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce. Neil Gaiman grumpyprojectsmiserable Even nothing cannot last forever. Neil Gaiman lastsforever We owe it to each other to tell stories. Neil Gaiman storytellingstories The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. Neil Gaiman discouragingtimeway There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song. Neil Gaiman painwinesong Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem... Neil Gaiman doctorsbluemen 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 writingadventurelong Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. Neil Gaiman writing Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. Neil Gaiman creating-artinspiringpeople People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing. Neil Gaiman googlerealpeople 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 shadowdustadventure This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Neil Gaiman doubtcharacterfiction The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. Neil Gaiman simplicityboredchildren But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them. Neil Gaiman namesyellowwinter Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave. Neil Gaiman coralinescaredbravery She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting. Neil Gaiman grandmothercatreal It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill. Neil Gaiman oceandreamchildren Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? Neil Gaiman poetsensibleadvice Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives. Neil Gaiman halfpeoplelooks A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. Neil Gaiman magiccoupleheart
