Quotes from Neil Gaiman

You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

I really don't know what "I love you" means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.

If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.