Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It’s hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.”

— Neil Gaiman

102. “Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Whatever you’re scared of doing, Do it.”

— Neil Gaiman

103. “You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There’s always a piece of them in your heart.”

— Neil Gaiman

104. “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.”

— Neil Gaiman

105. “What do stars do? They shine.”

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106. “The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.”

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

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108. “Because,? she said, ’when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”

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109. “It’s easy, there’s a trick to it, you do it or you die.”

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110. “It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”

— Neil Gaiman

111. “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.”

— Neil Gaiman

112. “When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.”

— Neil Gaiman

113. “He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.”

— Neil Gaiman

114. “He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.”

— Neil Gaiman

115. “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.”

— Neil Gaiman

116. “Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”

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117. “Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.”

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118. “Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”

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119. “Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren’t.”

— Neil Gaiman

120. “If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.”

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121. “Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.”

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122. “If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There’s a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.”

— Neil Gaiman

123. “Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.”

— Neil Gaiman

124. “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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125. “We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.”

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126. “I learned to write by writing.”

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127. “All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.”

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128. “Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.”

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129. “Books were safer than other people anyway.”

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130. “Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading – do not discourage children from reading because you feel they’re reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.”

— Neil Gaiman

131. “You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”

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132. “I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

— Neil Gaiman

133. “M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...”

— Neil Gaiman

134. “I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.”

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135. “The truth is, it’s not the idea, it’s never the idea, it’s always what you do with it.”

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136. “In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.”

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137. “We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.”

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138. “I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

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139. “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”

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140. “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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141. “Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.”

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142. “A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.”

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143. “I’ll find you. Don’t worry. Just be on your own and I’ll find you.”

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144. “I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”

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145. “Not only are there no happy endings,? she told him, ’there aren’t even any endings.”

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146. “Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.”

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147. “He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”

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148. “Remember your name. Do not lose hope – what you seek will be found.”

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149. “Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

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150. “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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