You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
NEIL GAIMANBeing 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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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.
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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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.
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