Neil Gaiman Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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.

• I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Kids, Parent

• Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Parenting, Age

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.7, Harper Collins

• If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

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  Children, Parent, Going Away

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.20, HarperCollins

• It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Ocean

• Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Thinking, Media

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

• Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Kids

• It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Clothes, Half

  "The Sandman". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, January 1989-March 1996.

• His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Names, Mountain

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

• I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Adults, Stories

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

• The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Bored, Simplicity

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, books.google.ru. November 10, 2011.

• We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Tired

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

• We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Writing, Men

  "Signal to Noise". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

• When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Children, Adults

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.2, Harper Collins

• Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Space, Adults

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

• I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Islands, Secret

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

• I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

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  Children, Selfish, Rocks

• For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home. "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Children, Father

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.60, A&C Black

• I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

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  Children, Book, Long

• 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.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.21, HarperCollins

• I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was tempted to write porn, imaginary parents would appear over my shoulder and read what I was writing; just about the point that I managed to banish the imaginary parents, real children would lean over my shoulder and read what I was writing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Real, Writing

• The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.

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  Baby, Children, Father

• I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Not Happy

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

• Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

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  Children, Adults, Tiny

• Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Important, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.21, HarperCollins

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