Best Neil Gaiman Quotes
Neil Gaiman Quotes About Love, Writing, Reading, Fairy Tales, Sandman, Life, Inspirational, Coraline, Stardust & American Gods! Neil Gaiman is an English writer of comic books, films, short stories, essays, novels, and radio plays. On November 10, 1960, Neil Richard Gaiman was born in Portchester, England. His ancestry is Eastern European Jewish, and he is descended from them. Gaiman was educated at several church-affiliated institutions, including East Grinstead’s Fonthill School, Ardingly College, and Croydon’s Whitgift School.
When Gaiman was a teenager, he discovered a shortage of adult comic books. After graduating from high school in 1977, Gaiman began working as a writer, writing for periodicals including the Sunday Times, the Observer, Knave, and Time Out. When Gaiman published his first book, a biography of the band Duran Duran, in 1984, it was well praised.
The pseudonyms he used to continue publishing articles and interviews for periodicals continue. Gaiman worked on The Sandman from December 1988 to March 1966, producing 12 volumes of the author’s oeuvre. Additionally, Gaiman has written many short stories and novels and his work in comic books. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, written with Terry Pratchett, was Gaiman’s debut novel released in 1990.
The BBC selected this book as one of England’s top 100 “best-loved books” in the world. Gaiman released American Gods in 2001; it is often regarded as the author’s most accomplished work. American Gods have been honored with renowned honors, including the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and SFX, and it has also gained a spot on the bestsellers list of The New York Times.
Best Neil Gaiman Quotes
1. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”-Neil Gaiman
2. “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”-Neil Gaiman
3. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something.”-Neil Gaiman
4. “Life is a disease, invariably fatal.”-Neil Gaiman
5. “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”-Neil Gaiman
6. “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”-Neil Gaiman
7. “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”-Neil Gaiman
8. “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.”-Neil Gaiman
9. “Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”-Neil Gaiman
10. “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”-Neil Gaiman
11. “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”-Neil Gaiman
12. “It is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”-Neil Gaiman
13. “Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”-Neil Gaiman
14. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”-Neil Gaiman
15. “The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.”-Neil Gaiman
16. “Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.”-Neil Gaiman
17. “As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.”-Neil Gaiman
18. “Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semicolons, for wasted effort.”-Neil Gaiman
19. “Make good art.”-Neil Gaiman
20. “A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.”-Neil Gaiman
21. “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.”-Neil Gaiman
22. “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”-Neil Gaiman
23. “You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.”-Neil Gaiman
24. “I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?”-Neil Gaiman
25. “You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”-Neil Gaiman
26. “Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”-Neil Gaiman
27. “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”-Neil Gaiman
28. “Every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”-Neil Gaiman
29. “Books were safer than other people anyway.”-Neil Gaiman
30. “Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”-Neil Gaiman
