Quotes from Neil Gaiman

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

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

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

Make good art.

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.