Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 15

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Real, Writing

  "The Sandman. Issue #75: The Tempest". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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• This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top

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  Home, Body, Flesh

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• Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

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  Country, Talking, People

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• It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

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  Appreciate, Too Late, Late

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• Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

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  Loyalty, Elephants, Leader

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• We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

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  Lying, Dust, Credit

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

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  Gathering, Faces, Failing

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• Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

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  Lying, Future, Glowing

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• There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

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  Heart, Men, Desire

  Neil Gaiman “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust #1”, Vertigo

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• The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

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  Writing, Eye, Giving

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• Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.

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  Inspiring, People, Creating Art

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• A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

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  Couple, Heart, Magic

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• If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author.

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  Writing, Stories, Ifs

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• I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

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  Stupid, Believe, Book

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• There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

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  Warning, Chicks, Proverbial

  "Stardust". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1998.

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• As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...].

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  Black, Costumes, Imagine

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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• Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.

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  Clever, Home, Names

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.142, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

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  Thinking, People, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.381, Hachette UK

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• Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

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  Book, Feel Better, Smell

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• People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

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  Book, People, Ready

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• Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

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  Writing

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James and AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

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  Games, World, Shapes

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Black as night, sweet as sin.

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  Sweet, Coffee, Night

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

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  Bravery, Scared, Coraline

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.69, A&C Black

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• He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

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  Tables, Found, Conversation

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.198, Hachette UK

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