Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 33

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• How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She picked at her teeth with a long crimson-varnished fingernail, then she tapped the finger, gently, tap-tap-tap against the polished black surface of her black button eyes.

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  Mother, Wall, Eye

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• Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

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  Fiction, Stuff, Pot

  "Fair Use and other things". Personal blog post, journal.neilgaiman.com. April 19, 2008.

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• You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

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  Dinosaurs, Barbecue, Knows

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• Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night.

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  Good Night, Men, Two

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

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  Love You, Mean, Shadow

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

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• It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.

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  Funeral, Pretty Woman, Ankles

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• If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.

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  Home, Ifs

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.187, A&C Black

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• He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass

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  Long Grass, Forests, Proud

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

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  Lying, Believe, Book

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• The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

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  Hate, Ugly, Way

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• It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

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  Dream, Long, Choices

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.

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  Eye, Fighting, Past

  Neil Gaiman, Steven-Elliot Altman, Brian Stableford (2003). “Shadows Over Baker Street”, p.15, Del Rey

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• Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

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  Cutting, Rose, Toads

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

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  Book, Reading, Savages

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• You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They'll forgive the lateness of the work if it's good, and if they like you. And you don't have to be as good as the others if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you.

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  Two, People, Forgiving

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

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  Taught Us, Study, One Thing

  Neil Gaiman, Steven-Elliot Altman, Brian Stableford (2003). “Shadows Over Baker Street”, p.14, Del Rey

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• 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.

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  Dream, Magic, Together

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

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  Destiny, Garden, Path

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• Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

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  Giving, Choices, Looks

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

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  Important, Chance, Grew

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• He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.

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  Stars, Dancer, Infinite

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.

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  Children, Book, Adults

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• Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

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  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

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  Children, Couple, Soul

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