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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 13

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

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

Truth, Science, Fool

Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

Sweet, Long, House

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

Doctors, Greek, Firsts

"Neil Gaiman Talks DOCTOR WHO Episode “Nightmare in Silver,” Evolving the Cybermen, Creating the Cybermites, His View on the TARDIS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2013.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

People, Darkness, Ghost

"American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.

Reality, Skills, People

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

Sky, World, Coraline

Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

Decision, Magic, Concerned

"The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

Real, Doe, Fiction

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Life, People, Tragedy

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

Love, Memories, Philosophy

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, (Ch. 6), 2001.

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.

Children, Clothes, Half

"The Sandman". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, January 1989-March 1996.

This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.

Forever, Quests, Safe

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

Lying, Future, Glowing

The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads.

Reading, Moving, Writing

"Neil Gaiman On Returning To 'Sandman,' Talking In His Sleep And The Power Of Comics". "Fresh Air" with Sam Briger, www.npr.org. December 15, 2015.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Warning, Chicks, Proverbial

"Stardust". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1998.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Choices, Our Actions, Accepting

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

England And America, Differences, Geography

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

Brother, Thinking, Add

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

Stupid, Believe, Book

As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...].

Black, Costumes, Imagine

Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

Games, World, Shapes

Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

Tables, Found, Conversation

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.198, Hachette UK

People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath.

People, Iceberg

Source: www.raintaxi.com

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

Morning, Men, Tangled

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.26, Harper Collins

It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten.

Dream, Hurt, Memories

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