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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.

Neil Gaiman

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
NEIL GAIMAN

Break Dream Easy Heart People Weakness
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
NEIL GAIMAN

Friendship Love Myself Thinking
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMAN

Important People Trust Yourself
Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
NEIL GAIMAN

Fight Library One Liner
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Walk Yourself
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
NEIL GAIMAN

Inspirational Life Pain Yourself
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
NEIL GAIMAN

God Myself Time
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Failure Person Philosophy Right Woman
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
NEIL GAIMAN

Children Explore One Liner
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
NEIL GAIMAN

Home Spiritual
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Myself Soul
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
NEIL GAIMAN

One Liner Story Talk
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMAN

Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
What do stars do? They shine.
NEIL GAIMAN

One Liner Shine Stars

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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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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