Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
NEIL GAIMANEvery lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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.
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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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