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 GAIMANI would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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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.
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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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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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Libraries are our friends.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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