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 GAIMANI 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?
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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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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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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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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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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