Neil Gaiman (2024)

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What was Neil Gaiman's famous quote? ›

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. You get ideas when you ask yourself simple questions.

Books are a gateway to making friends with the eminent dead. Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over.

As long as people aren't commercially exploiting characters I've created, and are doing it for each other, I don't see that there's any harm in it, and given how much people enjoy it, it's obviously doing some good.

I used to have an English accent. These days I have a transatlantic accent, of the kind that the Americans think is probably English, the English think is probably American, and the Australians and New Zealanders know is neither an Australian nor a New Zealand accent.

Gaiman says that he is not a Scientologist, and that like Judaism, Scientology is his family's religion. About his personal views, Gaiman has stated, "I think we can say that God exists in the DC Universe. I would not stand up and beat the drum for the existence of God in this universe.

He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. Gaiman is active as a television and screenwriter.

Neil Gaiman (born November 10, 1960, Portchester, Hampshire, England) is a British writer who earned critical praise and popular success with richly imagined fantasy tales that frequently featured a darkly humorous tone.

The story concerns the character of Lawrence Talbot, a claims adjustor and werewolf who finds himself in Innsmouth on a cold winter's night with the townspeople trying to bring about the return of the Elder Gods. It was written as a tribute to Roger Zelazny, and inspired by his novel A Night in the Lonesome October.

Gaiman once described that if he's working on a novel, he'll start around 1pm and stop around 6pm. But the work is always drafted longhand, with pen and ink. This technique allows you to get the words out, without the temptation to edit as you write.

Is Neil Gaiman dyslexic? ›

While not dyslexic himself Neil Gaiman's careers advice is still relevant and uplifting. There is more inspiration on our Writers page.

Though Gaiman said that he liked the majority of the book-to-film changes and that he loved "the sassy, blue-haired, American Coraline," there was one piece of the Selick-written and -directed film he was not a fan of: "I was uncomfortable with feeling like Wybie had rescued [Coraline] at the end.

A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

You can't judge people for the mistakes they make. You judge them for how they fix those mistakes.

Why don't you bang it against the wall a few times? That way, when you stop banging, it'll hurt less!