Quotes from Neil Gaiman

If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.

I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope.

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

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

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.

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

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

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

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

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.

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.