Quote

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

Neil Gaiman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
Actor
Author
Beekeeper
Blogger
Comics Writer
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Portchester
Hampshire
Neil Richard Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman
Better
Great
Thing
Batman
Superman
Transcendent
Literally
Stories
Truth

More quotes by Neil Gaiman

Image
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)
Neil Gaiman
Image
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
Neil Gaiman
Image
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
Neil Gaiman
Image
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.
Neil Gaiman
Image
The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you? Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.
Neil Gaiman
Image
If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.
Neil Gaiman
Image
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman
Image
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
Neil Gaiman
Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
Neil Gaiman
Image
On the whole, stories don't write themselves.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.
Neil Gaiman
Image
When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).
Neil Gaiman
Image
Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Neil Gaiman
Image
If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.
Neil Gaiman
Image
There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.
Neil Gaiman
Image
There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.
Neil Gaiman