Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 9

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• If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.

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  Kissing, Night, Cities

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• Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

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  Tea, Biscuits, Moments

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

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  Numbers, Path, Avoiding

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• Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

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  Ninety Nine, Doe, Never Trust

  "Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, Book 1)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, January – August 1989.

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• Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

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  Mean, Fire, Ideas

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• My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

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  Book, Kids, Funeral

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• All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

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  Writing, Night, Stories

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• You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

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  What Matters, Battle, Outcomes

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• All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

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  Writing, Tasks, Fiction

  "Where do you get your ideas?". Essay by Neil Gaiman, Personal website, www.neilgaiman.com.

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• It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

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  Important, Connections, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.

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  Moving, Tired, Kids

  "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman, (Sandman #16: "Lost Hearts"), January 1989 - November 2015.

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• Books were safer than other people anyway.

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  Book, People

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

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  Art, Empty Places, Sometimes

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.

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  People, Writing Advice

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• Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

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  Knowing Everything, Not Knowing, Sometimes

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• There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.

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  Pain, Loss, Unique

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• It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.

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  Mistake, Sometimes, Climbs

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• Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

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  Views, Strange, Sandman

  Neil Gaiman (1993). “The Sandman”

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• He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know.

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  Heart, Kissing, Moments

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• Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

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  Love, Romantic, Cute Boyfriend

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• Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

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  Broken, Spirit, Coraline

  "Coraline". www.imdb.com. February 5, 2009.

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  Libraries are our friends.

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  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

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  Good Night, Kissing, Strawberries

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

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  Ideas, Stories, Done

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• Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

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  Fear, Scared, Notable

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