Neil Gaiman Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Fishing, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.168, Hachette UK

• It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

  Neil Gaiman

  Party, Home, Good Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.

  Neil Gaiman

  Clever, Home, Names

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.142, Bloomsbury Publishing

• He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Long, Enough

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

• I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Normal, Wonderful

• Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as an life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement and I tried to be Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiance, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruit fly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Friday, Jobs

• You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Home, World

• 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

• This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Body, Flesh

• We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Heart, Angel

• I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Exclamation Marks, Numbers

• If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Ifs

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.187, A&C Black

• Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Home, Cities

• When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Journey, Garden

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.126, Hachette UK

• He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Alive, Want

• Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Forgotten

• I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Writing, People

• As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Summer, Children, Home

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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