"I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle sho...
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
More Neil Gaiman quotes
"I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there...
"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
"...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s ve...
"I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and ge...
"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.
"We owe it to each other to tell stories.
"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
"Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to clos...
"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
"People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
"Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba
"I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from...
"Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise ...
"My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book woul...