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Neil Gaiman [niːl ˈɡeɪmən], né le 10 novembre 1960 à Portchester en Angleterre, est un auteur britannique de romans et de scénarios de bande dessinée vivant aux États-Unis. Auteur prolifique et polyvalent, il a percé sur la scène du fantastique anglo-saxon grâce à sa série Sandman publiée par DC comics dans les années 1990. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. novembre 1960  •  Autres noms Neil Richard Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman: 121 citations2 J'aime

Neil Gaiman citations célèbres

“Ce que j'essaie de dire c'est que toute l'Amérique est comme ça. Ce n'est pas un bon pays pour les dieux. Ils y poussent mal. Ils sont comme des avocats qui essaieraient de pousser sur une terre à riz sauvage.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“L'homme peuple les ténèbres de fantômes, de dieux, d'électrons, de contes. L'homme imagine, l'homme croit, et c'est sa foi, cette foi inaltérable, qui déclenche les événements.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Dis-lui bien qu'on a reprogrammé cette réalité de merde. Que le langage est un virus, que la religion est un système d'exploitation et que les prières ne sont rien d'autre que du spam à la con!”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Qu'attendre d'un pays où la pègre a quitté le caniveau pour hanter le cinéma?”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Il est un secret que possèdent les casinos et qu'ils gardent jalousement, le plus sacré de tous leurs mystères. […] Le secret est le suivant : on joue pour perdre de l'argent. […] Il s'agit d'une sorte de sacrifice.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Voilà ce que ça signifie, être Américain. Voilà le miracle de l'Amérique. La liberté de penser, c'est aussi la liberté de se tromper, après tout. Tout comme la liberté de parole donne le droit de rester muet.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Je suis la boîte à bêtises. Je suis la télé. Je suis l'œil omniscient et le monde du rayon cathodique. Je suis le petit écran. Je suis l'autel devant lequel s'inclinent tous les membres de la famille.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Je crois que les hommes ne sont que de petits garçons montés en graine avec de profonds problèmes de communication et que le déclin de la sexualité en Amérique coïncide avec le déclin des drive-in dans la plupart des États.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

Citations de Dieu de Neil Gaiman

“À présent, vous aurez tous amplement l'occasion de le constater, des dieux nouveaux apparaissent en Amérique, grâce à des îlots de foi en pleine expansion : dieux de la carte de crédit et de l'autoroute, de l'hôpital et de la télévision, dieux du plastique, du klaxon, du néon. Dieux fiers, obèses et écervelés, gonflés de leur nouveauté et de leur importance.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Voici les dieux qui ont disparu du souvenir. Même leurs noms se sont perdus, et ceux qui les révéraient sont aussi oubliés qu'eux. Leurs totems ont été renversés, brisés, il y a bien longtemps. Leurs derniers prêtres sont morts sans avoir transmis leurs secrets.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Je suis un héros culturel. On a en gros le même emploi que les dieux, mais on fait plus de conneries et personne ne nous révère. Les gens racontent des histoires sur nous, mais aussi bien celles où on passe pour des cons que celles où on brille.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Les religions sont après tout des métaphores par définition : Dieu est un rêve, un espoir, une femme, un humoriste, un père, une ville, une maison aux nombreuses pièces, un horloger ayant abandonné son plus beau chronomètre dans le désert, quelqu'un qui vous aime — et même, peut-être, contre toute logique, un être céleste dont le seul but est de faire prospérer et triompher de tous les obstacles votre équipe de foot, votre armée, vos affaires ou votre couple.”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

American Gods, 2001

“Dame Liberté, répéta Voyageur. Comme tant des dieux qu'adorent les Américains, c'est une étrangère. Une Française, en l'occurrence, même si ses pères ont masqué son opulente poitrine sur la statue qu'ils ont offerte à New York, par respect pour la sensibilité américaine. […] La Liberté est une garce à baiser sur un matelas de cadavres […].”

Neil Gaiman livre American Gods

La dernière partie de la citation renvoie aux propos de Mirabeau.
American Gods, 2001

Neil Gaiman: Citations en anglais

“I'd never heard anything like it before. It was like banshee music. This absolutely otherworldly voice, singing about a book, and as a bookish kid, I was always fascinated by anything, any music that seems to be about or inspired by books.”

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On the song "Wuthering Heights"
The Kate Bush Story (2014)

“Chesterton and Tolkien and Lewis were, as I’ve said, not the only writers I read between the ages of six and thirteen, but they were the authors I read over and over again; each of them played a part in building me. Without them, I cannot imagine that I would have become a writer, and certainly not a writer of fantastic fiction. I would not have understood that the best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming, nor that the majesty and the magic of belief and dreams could be a vital part of life and of writing.
And without those three writers, I would not be here today. And nor, of course, would any of you. I thank you.”

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"Mythcon 35 Guest of Honor Speech", in Mythprint (October 2004)

“I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe."”

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The Sandman Companion (1999)

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”

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Neil Gaiman livre Coraline

Coraline (2002)

“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Neverwhere

Source: Neverwhere (1996), Chapter 10; Gaiman here references the famous statement of Isaac Asimov from "Foundation", Astounding Science-Fiction (May 1942)

“But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information. I worry that here in the 21st century people misunderstand what libraries are and the purpose of them. If you perceive a library as a shelf of books, it may seem antiquated or outdated in a world in which most, but not all, books in print exist digitally. But that is to miss the point fundamentally.”

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Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”

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"Gunpowder treason and plot" Blog entry (5 Nov 2004) http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2004/11/gunpowder-treason-and-plot.asp

““You’ve a good heart,” she told him. “Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go.” Then she shook her head. “But mostly, it’s not.””

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Neil Gaiman livre Neverwhere

Prologue
Neverwhere (1996)

“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.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Signal to Noise

Signal to Noise (1992)

“Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.”

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As quoted in "Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters at BBC News (24 May 2010)

“The world is always ending, for someone.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Signal to Noise

Signal to Noise (1992)

“Travers's Mary Poppins was a natural phenomena, ancient as mountain ranges, on first-name terms with the primal powers of the universe, adored and respected by everything that saw the world as it was. And she was a mystery. … philosophically, I suspect now, the universe of Mary Poppins underpins all my writing …”

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In his Foreword to Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins: The Governess as Provocateur (2007) by Giorgia Grilli, p. xiii

“The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Coraline

Coraline (2002)

“You get ideas from daydreaming. 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.”

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" Where do you get your ideas? http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Essays/Essays_By_Neil/Where_do_you_get_your_ideas%3F" (1997)

“"So computers are tools of the devil?" thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him.”

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Neil Gaiman livre De bons présages

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (1990) -->

“Chesterton was important — as important to me in his way as C. S. Lewis had been.
You see, while I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him. Tolkien’s words and sentences seemed like natural things, like rock formations or waterfalls, and wanting to write like Tolkien would have been, for me, like wanting to blossom like a cherry tree or climb a tree like a squirrel or rain like a thunderstorm. Chesterton was the complete opposite. I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.”

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"Mythcon 35 Guest of Honor Speech", in Mythprint (October 2004) http://www.mythsoc.org.nyud.net:8090/mythcon/35/speech/

“The little folk dare anything", said his friend. "And they talk a lot of nonsense. But they talks an awful lot of sense, as well. You listen to 'em at your peril, and you ignore 'em at your peril, too.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Stardust

Stardust (1999)

“My grandpa sells condoms to sailors, He punctures the tips with a pin, My grandma does back-street abortions, My god how the money rolls in.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Fragile Things

From the Monarch in the Glenn
Fragile Things (2006)

“If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?”

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Neil Gaiman livre Fragile Things

From the Monarch in the Glenn
Fragile Things (2006)

“Off to bed. If squirrels take over in the night, I, for one, welcome our new bushy-tailed scampering overlords, & I know where the nuts are.”

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Neil Gaiman's Twitter stream http://twitter.com/neilhimself, Tweet ID # 2189298072 (16 June 2009) http://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/2189298072

“We wrote the first draft in about nine weeks. Nine weeks of gloriously long phone calls, in which we would read each other what we'd written, and try to make the other one laugh. We'd plot, delightedly, and then hurry off the phone, determined to get to the next good bit before the other one could. We'd rewrite each other, footnote each other's pages, sometimes even footnote each other's footnotes.”

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Good Omens: How Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote a book (2014)

“Bod said, "I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said, and then he paused, and thought. "I want everything."”

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Neil Gaiman livre The Graveyard Book

Source: The Graveyard Book (2008), Ch. 8

“I wrote the first 5,000 words of William the Antichrist. It had a demon named Crawleigh. He drove a Citroen 2CV, and was ineffectual. Proper demons like Hastur and Ligur loathed him. It had a baby swap. I sent it to a few friends for feedback. Then my graphic novel Sandman happened, and it was almost a year later that the phone rang.
"It's Terry," said Terry. "'Ere. That thing you sent me. Are you doing anything with it?"
"Not really."
"Well, I think I know what happens next. Do you want to sell it to me? Or write it together?"
"Write it together," I said, because I was not stupid, and because that was the nearest I was ever going to get to Michaelangelo phoning to ask if I wanted to paint a ceiling with him.”

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Good Omens: How Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote a book (2014)

“… the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Anansi Boys

Source: Anansi Boys (2005), Ch. 13

“Nothing will remain of the armies of the living and of the dead, of the dreams of the gods and the bravery of their warriors, nothing but ash.
Soon after, the swollen ocean will swallow the ashes as it washes across all the land, and everything living will be forgotten under the sunless sky.
That is how the worlds will end, in ash and flood, in darkness and in ice. That is the final destiny of the gods.”

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Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 16, “Ragnarok: The Final Destiny of the Gods” (p. 279)

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that…") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

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Neil Gaiman's Journal (15 October 2007)

“When I was very young, somebody — maybe it was a squirrel, they talk so much, or a magpie, or maybe a fishie — told me that Pan owned all this forest. Well, not owned owned. Not like he would sell the forest to someone else, or put a wall all around it … It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Stardust

Stardust (1999)

“There was reality and there was reality; and some things were more real than others.”

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Neil Gaiman livre Anansi Boys

Source: Anansi Boys (2005), Ch. 9

“Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.”

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Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)

“I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.”

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Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 13, “Hymir and Thor’s Fishing Expedition” (p. 216)

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