"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. ...
And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
More Neil Gaiman quotes
"My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each...
"So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made...
"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
"Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
"I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.
"It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
"Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he ...
"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.
"No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulate...
"Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.
"Let's start a new tomorrow, today.
"I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond rec...
"Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.