Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMANThere 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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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.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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