Neil Gaiman Quotes

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

The best way to learn anything is by trying to teach it to someone else.

Every age is equal. Every age is an age of wonders.

Adults follow paths. Children explore.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

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 fooling a soul.

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 Quotes part 2

Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.

I believe that all legends begin with truths.

Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

All religions are true, but none of them are literal.

Sometimes it only takes a stranger, in a dark place, to hold out a badly-knitted scarf, to offer a kind word, to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season.

You know, it’s hard work to write a book. I can’t tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses. You ride the ghost train into the darkness, knowing that eventually the doors will open and you will step out into the daylight once again.

Remember: I’m nerdy and write fantasy novels for a living. My definition of ‘cool’ is somewhat alternative.

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

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

A book is a place where dreams are born and dreams come true.

Sometimes it’s necessary to stop focusing on the darkness and turn around to see the light.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

Everyone’s got a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them, they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

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.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

In the end, we all become stories.

Art and literature — like libraries, inspiration, and legends — are cascading magic. I’m lucky to be alive during a time when technology is thriving and information is increasingly available. But books and art and music can be shared without wifi.

The Library is a sphere whose exact center is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

Sometimes the transportive properties of library books aren’t found in their pages, but in something left inside — the bare imprint of a forgotten bedbug, a broach or gilded key to an elegant case, a scribbled love note or a pressed rose.

There are moments that you’ll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you’ll remember forever and then there are moments that you know you’ll forget.

If you don’t know what to do, just keep moving forward.

The really dangerous people believe that they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.

Awards are not rewards; they’re just glittering bribes.