Neil Gaiman Magic Quotations

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

And so there is magic.

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.