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76 Inspiring Quotes By Neil Gaiman That Are Sure To Enchant You

Famous As: Best Known for His Comic Book Series ‘The Sandman’ and Novels: ‘The Graveyard Book’ and ‘Stardust’
Born On: 1960
Born In: Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Age: 64 Years
Neil Gaiman is an English author of comic books, films, short fiction, nonfiction, novels, graphic novels, and audio theatre. Few of his distinguished works include ‘The Graveyard Book,’ ‘Stardust,’ ‘Coraline,’ ‘The Sandman,’ and ‘American Gods,’ besides various others. He has bagged in various medals and awards for his writings, including ‘Newbery Medal,’ ‘Hugo Award,’ ‘Bram Stoker Award,’ ‘Carnegie Medal,’ and ‘Nebula Award.’ The ‘British National Book Awards’ voted his novel ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ as ‘Book of The Year’ in 2013. We have compiled some interesting quotes by Neil Gaiman which have been curated from his interviews, writings, novels, movies, and books.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

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

Neil Gaiman
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.

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

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

Neil Gaiman
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Neil Gaiman
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Neil Gaiman
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Neil Gaiman
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.

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

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

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

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

Neil Gaiman
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.

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
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Neil Gaiman
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Neil Gaiman
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.

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
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

Neil Gaiman
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Neil Gaiman
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

Neil Gaiman
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Neil Gaiman
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.

In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.

Neil Gaiman
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?

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
You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Neil Gaiman
Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Neil Gaiman
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman
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. If you see what I mean.

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. If you see what I mean.

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

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

Neil Gaiman
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Neil Gaiman
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

Neil Gaiman
Books were safer than other people anyway.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Neil Gaiman
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

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

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)

Neil Gaiman
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

Neil Gaiman