Neil Gaiman Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

• May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Years, Magic

• THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Sep 17, 2011

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Heart, Magic

• In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that.

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  Baby, Thinking, People

• And so there is magic.

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  Magic

• The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

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  Mean, Writing, Fire

  "Why Write?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. October 15, 2007.

• Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

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  People, Magic, Stories

• 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

• If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

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  Magic, World, Want

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.167, A&C Black

• You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Horse, Believe

• Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Magic

  Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio (2010). “Stories: All-New Tales”, p.1, Harper Collins

• 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.

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  Dog, Giving, Advice

• It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.

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  Lying, Book, Sleep

• With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

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  Children, Reading, Years

• Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

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  Decision, Magic, Concerned

  "The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

• First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Names, Magic

  "The Books of Magic (Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

• Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Two, Talking

  "The Books of Magic. Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1990 - 1991.

• The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads.

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  Reading, Moving, Writing

  "Neil Gaiman On Returning To 'Sandman,' Talking In His Sleep And The Power Of Comics". "Fresh Air" with Sam Briger, www.npr.org. December 15, 2015.

• The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.

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  Reading, Writing, Drawing

  Source: www.npr.org

• From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

  Neil Gaiman

  Magic, Meetings, Parting

  "The Books of Magic (Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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