Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 6

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• Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

  "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, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

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  Done, Made, Havens

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Communication, School, Ideas

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

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  Views, Where You Are, Heal

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

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  Art, Parameters, Bounce

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• The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

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  Problem

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

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  Baby, Pain, Sleep

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• Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

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  Reality, Echoes, Storm

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• Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

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  Knowledge, Two, Style

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• Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

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  Lying, Writing, Stories

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• Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

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  Believe, Cat, Deserve

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

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• I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

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  Relationship, Break Up, Thinking

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• Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

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  Dream, Moving, Dark

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

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  Children, Parenting, Age

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

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  Adults, Coraline, Made

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• Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Together

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• Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

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  Age, Looks, World

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

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• You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

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  Successful, Rocks, Sea

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• Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

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  Disease, Life Is, Sexually

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

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  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

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  Jobs, Hardest Job, People

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• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

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  Farewell, Blow, Grieving

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

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• To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.

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  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

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  Girl, World, Digital

  Neil Gaiman (2015). “American Gods: Roman”, p.309, BASTEI LÜBBE

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• I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

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  Believe, Reading, Exercise

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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