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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Neil Gaiman

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 GAIMAN

Poet Quite Winner Writing
Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
NEIL GAIMAN

Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Walk Yourself
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Goodness Lying Story True
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Friendship Love Myself Thinking
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMAN

Important People Trust Yourself
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy See Sky World
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
NEIL GAIMAN

Angel Fall
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
Even nothing can last forever.
NEIL GAIMAN

Forever Philosophy
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
NEIL GAIMAN

People Philosophy Reality True Yourself
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Myself Soul
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Inspirational Yourself
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep One Liner Philosophy
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Myself Teaching Worth
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
NEIL GAIMAN

God Myself Time

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