He liked being big and strong. It gave him an identity. He’d been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own. Nobody until Laura, anyway.

— Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Quotes

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

— Neil Gaiman
Deep About Life Short About Life Live Life Fiction

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

— Neil Gaiman

You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.

— Neil Gaiman

Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

— Neil Gaiman

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

— Neil Gaiman

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you’ve done something.

— Neil Gaiman
Mistake

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

— Neil Gaiman

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

— Neil Gaiman
Library

I’ve learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

— Neil Gaiman

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

— Neil Gaiman
About Stories

If you don’t know it’s impossible, it’s easier to do.

— Neil Gaiman

You don’t get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.

— Neil Gaiman

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

— Neil Gaiman

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

— Neil Gaiman

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.

— Neil Gaiman

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

— Neil Gaiman
Book

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

— Neil Gaiman

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

One word after another. That’s the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it’s the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.

— Neil Gaiman
Creativity Fiction Monday Morning Practice

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

— Neil Gaiman
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