Neil Gaiman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

• The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

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  Giving, Advice, Scared

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.138, Hachette UK

• Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Eye, People

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.175, Hachette UK

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Eye, Giving

• I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Thinking, Keys

  "An Evening With Neil Gaiman And Amanda Palmer: Ask Us Anything. Go On. Go On You Know You Want To". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 19, 2013.

• A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

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  Giving, Library, Citizens

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

• Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Life, Smile

  "The Sandman: The Kindly Ones". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

• What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Principles, Atoms

• Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

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  Sleep, Giving, Boredom

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.200, Hachette UK

• To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lost Love, Giving, Devil

• There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

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  Dream, Pain, Real

• Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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  Death, Patience, Giving

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.21, Harper Collins

• She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been given her ocean. One day, in its own time, the ocean will give her back.I thought of corpses and of skeletons with pearls for eyes. I thought of mermaids with tails that flicked when they moved, like my goldfishes' tails had flicked before my goldfish had stopped moving, to lie, belly up, like Lettie, on the top of the water. I said, 'Will she be the same?

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

• Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice Cream. I give you lots of kisses, And I give lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches With bugs In.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Nice, Kissing

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.187, A&C Black

• We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.

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  Home, Heart, Angel

• I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

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  Girl, Giving, Feelings

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

• It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

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  Believe, Mean, Winning

• Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

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  Knowing Everything, Giving, Stuff

• The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.

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  Baby, Children, Father

• What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,” she said. “And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dirty, Thinking, Knights

• I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.

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  Real, Holiday, Thinking

• They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

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  Giving, Temptation, Lust

  "Season of Mists (The Sandman, Book 4)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, December 1990 – July 1991.

• So you used to know everything?" She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play." "To play what?" "This," she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars.

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  Stars, Moon, Sky

• And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.

  Neil Gaiman

  Selfish, Giving, Scared

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

• I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Giving, Advice

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