Neil Gaiman

"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."

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

"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."

"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."

"Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians."

"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."

"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins."

"I really don't know what "I love you"means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"We owe it to each other to tell stories."

"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

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

"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men."

"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."

"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"

"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."

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

"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. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."

"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."