Quotes by Neil Gaiman

We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well. Where did I hear that? It doesnt matter. There is a village in my head.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

Three years in London had not changed Richard, although it had changed the way he perceived the city. Richard had originally imagined London as a gray city, even a black city, from pictures he had seen, and he was surprised to find it filled with color. It was a city of red brick and white stone, red buses and large black taxis, bright red mailboxes and green grassy parks and cemeteries.It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect; a city of shops and offices and restaurants and homes, of parks and churches, of ignored monuments and remarkably unpalatial palaces; a city of hundreds of districts with strange names - Crouch End, Chalk Farm, Earls Court, Marble Arch - and oddly distinct identities; a noisy, dirty, cheerful, troubled city, which fed on tourists, needed them as it despised them, in which the average speed of transportation through the city had not increased in three hundred years, following five hundred years of fitful road-widening and unskillful compromises between the needs of traffic, whether horse-drawn, or, more recently, motorized, and the need of pedestrians; a city inhabited by and teeming with people of every color and manner and kind.

people tell you so much more when they know youre just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are.

Oh, monsters are scared, said Lettie. Thats why theyre monsters.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. Thats the power of songs.

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

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. Youre doing things youve never done before, and more importantly, youre doing something.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. Its a community space. Its a place of safety, a haven from the world.

As far as Im concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. Im not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

When youre starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff thats gone before and the stuff thats influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And thats where you start from.

I want to write a play. Id like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.