Neil Gaiman Way Quotations

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

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already know the truth. But I think that's just how the world has always been. And even now I know the truth, the world still seems cheap and shoddy. Different world, different shoddy, but that's how it feels.

Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

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.

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. That is the way of life, from the All-Highest down to the meanest creature in creation...But whether this is the case or no, it is still a worthy thing to open cages. It is still a virtuous act to free the imprisoned.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.