Quotes from Neil Gaiman

If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

When things get tough... Make good art.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

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

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.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

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

He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.

I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.

Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.