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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

Neil Gaiman

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Heart Love Vulnerable Yourself
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMAN

Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
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
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
NEIL GAIMAN

End Ideas Kill People
She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
NEIL GAIMAN

Dance Darkness Eyes Simplicity Sky Stars
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMAN

Adventure Freedom. Pain Place
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
NEIL GAIMAN

Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMAN

Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
NEIL GAIMAN

Animal End Friendship Future Imagination Life Yourself
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
NEIL GAIMAN

Heart Kiss People Perfection See Touch
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Dream Heaven Hell Philosophy Power Spiritual
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMAN

Forget Impossible People Safety World
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Walk Yourself
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
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Live Myself One Liner
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

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