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!
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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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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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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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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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.
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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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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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.
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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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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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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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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.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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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