Neil Gaiman
(born 10 November 1960) British'See also: The Sanāman, The Books of Magic, and Good Omens'' (co-written with Terry Pratchett)
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- "Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, 'So this is how it feels,' and I would tie it up in pretty words. I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. For I knew I could take my broken heart and place it on the stage of The Globe, and make the pit cry tears of their own.
- "The Tempest," issue #75 of "The Sandman" (), collected in The Wake; The speaker is William Shakespeare, looking back over his career as he finishes writing The Tempest as one of two plays commissioned by Morpheus (Dream; The Sandman).
- "The Tempest," issue #75 of "The Sandman" (), collected in The Wake; The speaker is William Shakespeare, looking back over his career as he finishes writing The Tempest as one of two plays commissioned by Morpheus (Dream; The Sandman).
- "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
- Source: "The Sandman".
- Source: "The Sandman".
- "The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
- Neil Gaiman's Journal online
- Neil Gaiman's Journal online
- "Fuck. I won a Hugo!"
- Upon winning a Hugo award for his novel American Gods.
- Upon winning a Hugo award for his novel American Gods.
Signal to Noise (1992)
- In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.
- We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
- The world is always ending, for someone.
- I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.
- Apocatastasis. What it means:
1) Restoration, re-establishment, renovation
2) Return to a previous condition
3) (Astronomy) Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution.
Think about it. - We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.
Tori Amos
Singer Tori Amos makes regular references to Gaiman in her song lyrics; She was a fan of his, and they became friends, before she herself gained fame and acclaim. He reciprocates by creating characters based on her in his books, crediting her as the source of some of Delirium's lines.- "Neil said hi, by the way..." ("Tear in Your Hand")
- "But will you find me if Neil makes me a tree?" ("Horses")
- "Get me Neil on the line, no I can't hold/Have him read "Snow Glass Apples" ("Carbon")
- Gaiman has also been tributed by having a race of alien beings named after him on the telvision and book series "Babylon 5." "The Gaim" are a race of beings with long, fly-like faces remniscent of the mask worn by Gaiman's "Sandman" character.