Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”

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102. “If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.”

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103. “What do stars do? They shine.”

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104. “I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.”

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105. “You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.”

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

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107. “Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It’s hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.”

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

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109. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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115. “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.”

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116. “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...”

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117. “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.”

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118. “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.”

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119. “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.”

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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. “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.”

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

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124. “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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125. “Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”

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126. “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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127. “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.”

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128. “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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129. “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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130. “I learned to write by writing.”

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131. “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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132. “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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133. “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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134. “Books were safer than other people anyway.”

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

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136. “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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137. “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.”

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138. “As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.”

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

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140. “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.”

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

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

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145. “They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.”

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146. “There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.”

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147. “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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148. “There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.”

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149. “You’ve a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”

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

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