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

Reading, Relationships, Books, Love, Positivity

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone

Neil Gaiman’s Quotes On Topics

Narrative Structure | Ownership | Mistakes | Determination | Wordcount | Webs | Narratives | Rebirth | Popularity | Balance | Art | Moving On | Self Education | Escape | Existence | Affordability | Darkness | Lifestyle | Renewal | Skepticism | More

More Neil Gaiman Quotes

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”

Joy, Nostalgia, Childhood, Pleasure, Resilience

“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”

Storytelling, Character Development, Growth, Narrative, Meaning

“There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.”

Unicorns, Experiences, Magic, Joy, Fantasy

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.”

Books, Favorites, Choice, Attachment, Preference

“The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.”

Fate, Interconnectedness, Prophecy, Metaphor, Complexity

“Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.”

Ideas, Creativity, Inspiration, Imagination, Humor

“Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.”

Trees, Nature, Mythology, Mystery, Imagination

“The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.”

Shortstory, Novel, Respect, Literaryvalue, Creativity

“Really, he thought, if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”

Trust, Poetry, Advice, Wisdom, Writers’ Insights

“In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.”

Childhood, Vulnerability, Family, Danger, Growing Up

“Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

Creativity, Rebellion, Individuality, Impact, Inspiration

“I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it’s very, very classical, and in some ways I’m breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can’t do.”

Writing, Creativity, Rules, Classical, Exploration

“Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. Instead, wait until the hour is propitious.”

Revenge, Patience, Timing, Advice, Strategy

“Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life.”

Lies, Memory, Perception, Experience, Transformation

“Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”

Memory, Perception, Individuality, Experiences, Subjectivity

“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.”

Emotions, Magnitude, Perception, Feelings, Complexity

“Where does contagion end and art begin?”

Art, Influence, Creativity, Boundaries, Inspiration

“I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I’m much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don’t work, and applying them to new things that may work.”

Growth, Progress, Learning, Future, Innovation

“Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.”

Money, Experience, Value, Life Lessons, Regret

“While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.”

Clothes, Identity, Perception, Appearance, Expression