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
I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.
It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.
It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.
I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.
Some of the things are the same no matter which world you're in, kid. One of 'em is this: The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it.
You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.
When I started doing Sandman, I could look at a group of people lined up to get my autograph, and I knew who was my fan and who was somebody's mum there to get a signature. It doesn't work that way anymore. They're people. They're us. That's what they look like.
Fat Charlie wasn't sure that he liked freedom, ... There was too much open air involved.