Neil Gaiman Quotes About Morning

Quotes about: Morning

• As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Literature, Becoming

• Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Morning, Eye

• Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Men, Tangled

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.26, Harper Collins

• When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Children, Adults

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.2, Harper Collins

• It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Morning, Bed

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.81, A&C Black

• All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Flower, Darkness

• In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Moving, Sleep

  "Fragile Things". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2006.

• I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Men, Snakes

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

• I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Lunch, Crow

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Signal to Noise”, p.44, A&C Black

• If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Distance, Writing

  "Interview with Neil Gaiman". Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

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