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
And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.
Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.
Without dreams, there could be no despair.
The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.
For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
You don't have to stay anywhere forever.
I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.
One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.
Any view of things that is not strange, is false.
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
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.