Neil Gaiman Growing Quotations

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.