Neil Gaiman Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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.
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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

• 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

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

• I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Reading, Exercise

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

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, World

• 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

• Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Reading, Writing

• 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

• October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Garden

• 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 am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed to grade papers without actually reading the blessed things.

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  Blessed, Reading, Would Be

  Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Theodora Goss, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Parks (2013). “Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition”, p.190, Wildside Press LLC

• Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Children, Book

• I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

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  Book, Reading, Savages

• Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

• I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Writing, Artist

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.28, HarperCollins

• When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Hands, Insane

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams" by Michael MacLeod, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

• I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fun, Reading, Years

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. February 3, 1999.

• I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Ipads, Mind

• I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, School, Mean

• Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.

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  Reading, Literature History, Mash Up

• The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Way

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.22, Hachette UK

• You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.

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  Book, Reading, People

• I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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