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 GAIMANWhat 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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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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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.
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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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.
NEIL GAIMAN