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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

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Walk Yourself
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
NEIL GAIMAN

Crazy Myself
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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Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
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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Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
NEIL GAIMAN

Inspirational One Liner Scare
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
NEIL GAIMAN

Goodness Hell Writing
There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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Herself Nature Rain Remember Try
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
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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Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Myself Philosophy True
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
NEIL GAIMAN

Kiss Win
It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
NEIL GAIMAN

Let Go Philosophy Yourself
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Be Yourself One Liner
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

Poet Quite Winner Writing
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

People Philosophy Reality True Yourself
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
NEIL GAIMAN

Courage Future Philosophy
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
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
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
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?
NEIL GAIMAN

Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy
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
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
NEIL GAIMAN

Death Deep Life

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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