Quote

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

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
Lying
Empathy
Eye
Tells
True
Minds
Giving
Gives
Mind
Fiction
Things
Inside
World
Seeing
Gifts
People
Eyes
Puts

More quotes by Neil Gaiman

Image
You can't make me love you.
Neil Gaiman
Image
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. There are those, it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to esc
Neil Gaiman
Image
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.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.
Neil Gaiman
Image
He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass
Neil Gaiman
Image
I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, There's no masturbation in the DC Universe. To which my reaction was, Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.
Neil Gaiman
Image
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
Neil Gaiman
Image
If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.
Neil Gaiman
Image
I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.
Neil Gaiman
Image
It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.
Neil Gaiman
Image
There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.
Neil Gaiman
Image
I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Libraries really are the gates to the future.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith, said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. Loki, he said. Loki Lie-smith. You're slow, said Loki, but you get there in the end. And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.
Neil Gaiman
Image
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
Neil Gaiman
Image
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
Neil Gaiman
Image
Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.
Neil Gaiman