Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 November 1960
CityPortchester, England
That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.
If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.
When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.
It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.
Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!
Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.
All bookshelves are magical.
So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.
Mostly you are what they think you are.
Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.
It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.