Neil Gaiman Quotes

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.
Neil Gaiman

Live, Mind, Play

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.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Bored, Between

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

Love, Heart, Someone

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.
Neil Gaiman

True, Facts, Happened

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
Neil Gaiman

Life, Comparison, Disease

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.
Neil Gaiman

Work, Human, Might

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
Neil Gaiman

Good, Fun, Making

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

Fool, Else, Speak

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Lost, Place

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

Morning, Reason, Far

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

Before, Seems, Brighter

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Neil Gaiman

Freedom, Nice, Place

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
Neil Gaiman

Why, Reason, Hot

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.
Neil Gaiman

Freedom, Speech, Countries

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

Tell, Ourselves, Bearable

Also, I've already won all the awards.
Neil Gaiman

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

Opinion, Worth, Trouble

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

Rock, Stars, Writers

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.
Neil Gaiman

Funny, Great, Battle

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

Science, Writing, Started

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

Writing, Started, Maybe

I think of myself as a very lazy author.
Neil Gaiman

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

Art, Respect, Short

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.
Neil Gaiman

Sense, Wanted, Write

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

Anyone, Wants, Written

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 10, 1960

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