Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

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  Eye, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Sep 17, 2011

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• 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.

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  Love, Morning, Eye

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• We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

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  Writing, Rights, Stories

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

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• When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.

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  Love, Lying, Two

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• We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

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  Dream, Forever, Unforgettable

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

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• Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

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  Song, Voice, People

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

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  Writing, Cake, Cooking

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

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  Two, Civilization, Twenties

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• I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.

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  Strong Women, Nuts, People

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• The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

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  Real, World, Sometimes

  "Exclusive Interview: Neil Gaiman on The Weird". WeirdFictionReview.com Interview, weirdfictionreview.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

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  Women, Book, Naked

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

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  Phoenix, Doe, Lost

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• So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

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  New Year, Art, Mistake

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

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  People, Different, World

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.12, HarperCollins

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• Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

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  Happy Endings

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• I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.

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  Art, Hurt, Mean

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• You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

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  Heart, Safe, Sometimes

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• When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

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  Running, Art, Husband

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• Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

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  Moving, Writing, Perfection

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• Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

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  Dream, Heart, May

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

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  Dream, Moving, Dark

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

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  Book, Ideas, People

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• I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

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  Life, Stars, Mean

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

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  Dream, Stuff

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• [D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.

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  Book, Healing, Hands

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