Neil Gaiman Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

• May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

• Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

  Neil Gaiman

  Women, Book, Naked

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.
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  Libraries are our friends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

• I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

• [D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Healing, Hands

• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

• 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 turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Ocean, Book

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

• Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

• Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Ideas, People

• Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Body

• Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, World, Cheaper

• It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

  Neil Gaiman

  Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Apr 14, 2010

• What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Soul, May

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

• 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 and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Kids, Funeral

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Feel Better, Smell

• A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Dream, Book

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Ready

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teacher, Growing Up, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.73, Hachette UK

• Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, World

• I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Kissing, Thinking

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Book, Flexible

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

• I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Bed

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

• Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Book, Long

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

• Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can actually, essentially communicate with the people in ancient Egypt, people in Rome and Greece, people in ancient Britain, people in New York in the 1920s who can communicate to us and change the way we think, and change the things that we believe. I think that books are special. Books are sacred. And I think that when you are selling books, you have to remember that in all the profits and loss, in all of that, you are treading on sacred ground.

  Neil Gaiman

  New York, Believe, Book

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