Neil Gaiman Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teacher, Growing Up, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.73, Hachette UK

• 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 our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Kindness, Lying

• It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Cowboy, Thinking

• I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Growing Up, Grows

• You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Trying, Grows

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.146, Hachette UK

• It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Growing, Behind You

• Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Growing, Overrated

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