Neil Gaiman Quotes

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Books are packaged dreams.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I loved fantasy role play.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.