Quotes By Neil Gaiman

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

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.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

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

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Make good art.

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

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 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.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.