Neil Gaiman

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

“Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”

“Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”

“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”

“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”

“People tend to find books when they are ready for them.”

“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.)”

“Still. Four words. And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear Neil, If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be insc...”

“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 bad places. It can be a safe place you...”

“Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold,...”

“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 would be hidden inside some pocket or other...”

“Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.”

“Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you...”

“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.”

“They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six characters and a handful of punctuation marks. These letters and words, when placed in the right...”

“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 are.”

“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 showed up, a physical book is like a shark....”

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd belie...”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

“És senki ne gondolja, hogy a könyvek nem valóságos helyek.”