Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”

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52. “Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”

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53. “Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.”

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54. “I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.”

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55. “The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.”

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56. “Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.”

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57. “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

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58. “You hurt. It’s okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”

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59. “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 true of everybody.”

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60. “Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

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61. “Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”

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62. “Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams.”

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63. “The real problem with stories – if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

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64. “The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.”

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65. “Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.”

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66. “Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island.”

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67. “I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.”

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68. “You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”

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69. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”

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70. “It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?”

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71. “Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I’m always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.”

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72. “You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”

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75. “Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.”

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76. “Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.”

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77. “Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we’re human.”

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78. “Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.”

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79. “Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.”

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80. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”

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81. “You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.”

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82. “I’ve been inspired by dreams – I’ve even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.”

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83. “Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”

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84. “You were her way here, and it’s a dangerous thing to be a door.”

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85. “Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

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86. “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”

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87. “Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”

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88. “Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes...”

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89. “I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.”

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90. “Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”

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91. “I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist – books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.”

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92. “Anyone who calls you “little lady” has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.”

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93. “Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.”

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94. “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”

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95. “Remember your name. Do not lose hope – what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”

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96. “The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.”

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97. “Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.”

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98. “I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.”

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99. “The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.”

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100. “Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.”

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