When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.


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You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kil...
NEIL GAIMAN
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
NEIL GAIMAN
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.
NEIL GAIMAN
It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do...
NEIL GAIMAN
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And...
NEIL GAIMAN
There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...
NEIL GAIMAN
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...
NEIL GAIMAN
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
NEIL GAIMAN
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...
NEIL GAIMAN
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...
NEIL GAIMAN
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrif...
NEIL GAIMAN
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bea...
NEIL GAIMAN
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
NEIL GAIMAN
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...
NEIL GAIMAN
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
NEIL GAIMAN
I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
NEIL GAIMAN
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
NEIL GAIMAN
Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
NEIL GAIMAN
Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMAN
I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
NEIL GAIMAN
As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN
Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN
I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
NEIL GAIMAN
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN
One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN
The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN
I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
NEIL GAIMAN
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
NEIL GAIMAN
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMAN
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
NEIL GAIMAN
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
NEIL GAIMAN
As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
NEIL GAIMAN
I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
NEIL GAIMAN
Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN
Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN
To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN
Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
NEIL GAIMAN
I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
NEIL GAIMAN
What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN
Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
NEIL GAIMAN
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
NEIL GAIMAN
Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN
This little piggy went to Hades
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy ate raw an...
NEIL GAIMAN