When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
NEIL GAIMANRule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
-
-
Everybody has 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.
NEIL GAIMAN -
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
NEIL GAIMAN -
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
NEIL GAIMAN -
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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.
NEIL GAIMAN -
You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
NEIL GAIMAN -
It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
NEIL GAIMAN -
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
NEIL GAIMAN -
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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.
NEIL GAIMAN -
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
NEIL GAIMAN -
You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
NEIL GAIMAN -
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 -
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
NEIL GAIMAN -
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMAN