Quotes by Neil Gaiman

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“ A book is a dream that you hold in your hands. “

-Neil Gaiman-

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

I dreamed of shadows that night, vast shadows that blotted out the sun, and I called out to them in my desperation, but they did not listen.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last one.

You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted onBookRiot, June 18, 2013)

The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.

As we age, we become our parents, live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

There's always hope. Sometimes it's the last thing left.

I am hope.

I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

love is not for everyone .There's a certain kind of courage in allowing yourself to fall.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Nearly only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad.Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever i

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway,that'sbrave.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Kiss a lover,Dance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure.Face your life,It's pain,It's pleasure,Leave no path untaken.

I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken...Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain,Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, s

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someo

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

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 like stories where women save themselves.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

The things we touch have a life of their own.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

You leave behind a story worth telling.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them.

You make something beautiful, and it becomes part of a world that has real consequences.

It’s a big world. You can do anything you want.

You’ve a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.

There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.

The price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.

Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

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

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

There are so many things a story can do. It can go out into the world, and make a new world.

Magic doesn’t disappear, even if you drop the ring down a drain.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

There isn’t really a border between this world and the others - and if there is, it’s probably just a wisp of mist.

Reality is a lot more complicated.

Truth is a very complicated thing.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Time is fluid here, said the demon.

Fantasy is a way of looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

It’s hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world without someone undercutting you as well.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

Belief is a remarkable thing. Once you have it, it changes everything.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

The world changes because the people who live in it change.

Being brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you are scared, but you do the right thing anyway.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time.

Dreams are very personal things.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

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

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.

Halloween là thời điểm mà cửa giữa thế giới thần thoại và thế giới thực mở ra.

Introducing Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman or was known as Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and the novels Good Omens, Stardust, Anansi Boys, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He co-created the TV series adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman.

Gaiman has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London. Writers that Gaiman has mentioned as influences include Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Dave Sim, Alan Moore, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, John Crowley, Lord Dunsany, G. K. Chesterton and Gene Wolfe.