Neil Gaiman Quotes about Magic

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First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

Neil Gaiman

Real, Names, Magic

"The Books of Magic (Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

Neil Gaiman

Magic, Meetings, Parting

"The Books of Magic (Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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.

Neil Gaiman

Decision, Magic, Concerned

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

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

Neil Gaiman

Couple, Heart, Magic

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

Neil Gaiman

Book, People, Magic

Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio (2010). “Stories: All-New Tales”, p.1, Harper Collins

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

Neil Gaiman

Dream, Years, Magic

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

Neil Gaiman

People, Magic, Stories

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Neil Gaiman

Magic, World, Want

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.167, A&C Black