Neil Gaiman Quotes

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.