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 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.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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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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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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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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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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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