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Neil Gaiman
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can ...
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look ...
“Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”
“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell...
“Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this ac...
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a ta...
“I will write in words of fire.I will write them on your skin.I will write about desire.Write beginnings, write of sin.Y...
“People tend to find books when they are ready for them.”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your hea...
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and ...
“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway,that'sbrave.”
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could n...
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted onBookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
“Kiss a lover,Dance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure.Face your life,It's pain,It's pleasure,Leave no path unt...
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”
“As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.”
“Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shou...
“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what yo...
“Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.”
“Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.”
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They d...
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to...
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, ...
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused...
“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than...
“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”
“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 ...
“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
“We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.”
“I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and ...
“She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.”
“I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one...
“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw a...
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it ...
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written b...
“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was c...
“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and ...
“Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a...
“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. D...
“Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their tur...
“Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to beha...
“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”
“Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. ...
“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not P...
“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
“Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but ...
