The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
NEIL GAIMANWe owe it to each other to tell stories.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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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.
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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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!
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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