People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANPeople want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANOh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
NEIL GAIMANAll your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
NEIL GAIMANYou’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
NEIL GAIMANRule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
NEIL GAIMANIf you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
NEIL GAIMANNot only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
NEIL GAIMANThat which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
NEIL GAIMANBooks 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 GAIMANWhat power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
NEIL GAIMANNobody 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 GAIMANHe had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
NEIL GAIMANThis 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 GAIMANI think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
NEIL GAIMANBeing 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 GAIMANYou can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMAN