Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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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.
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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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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 lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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