NEIL GAIMAN BOOK QUOTES

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

“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.” – The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” – The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.” – A Slip of the Keyboard

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision.” – Make Good Art

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Dreams, Preludes and Nocturnes

“We owe it to ourselves to use the talents we have been given.” – The Sleeper and the Spindle

“The only way to deal with this life is to enjoy it and drink deep of it. And enjoy what’s happening now.” – Stardust

“I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.” – American Gods

“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 someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.” – The Kindly Ones

“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you.” – The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” – The Graveyard Book

“Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty.” – Coraline INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES MIKE TYSON

“The world is always ending for someone.” – The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“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.” – Neil Gaiman’s Journal

“I believe in the power of stories. That they can entertain, but also they are ways for people to explore stuff that they are afraid of.” – Conversations with Neil Gaiman

“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.” – The Wake

“Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say the right thing and a person becomes a coward.” – Anansi Boys

“She had blue skin, and so did he. He kept it hid and so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, then passed right by- and never knew.” – Instructions

“Faeries are in the air. I can smell them. Their joy is the touch of their wings on the wind. Their joy is the drink that fills my veins, their joy is my blood.” – Stardust

“When people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.” – The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” – The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“We do not seek immortality in books, but within the bounds of time allotted to us.” – The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“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.” – Neil Gaiman’s Journal