Neil Gaiman Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Names, Mountain

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

• Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Adventure

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.182, A&C Black

• 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

• "Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ideas, Years, People

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