Neil Gaiman Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Parent, Going Away

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

• As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, Parent, Age

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

• 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

• China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Optimistic, America

  Source: collider.com

• All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

  Neil Gaiman

  Technology, People, Parent

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 1, 2000.

• 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.

• My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed where, somewhere at the event, I would find a book and sit under a table where nobody could get me and go back into book land.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Land, Car

  Source: www.wbur.org

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