Quotes from Neil Gaiman

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, 'Boy, you're a really good walker around,' you know. It's not really hard.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

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

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

Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.