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 GAIMANMay 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
-
-
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
NEIL GAIMAN -
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMAN -
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
NEIL GAIMAN -
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 -
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
NEIL GAIMAN -
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
NEIL GAIMAN -
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 -
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN -
Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
NEIL GAIMAN -
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
NEIL GAIMAN -
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
NEIL GAIMAN -
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN -
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 -
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
NEIL GAIMAN -
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.
NEIL GAIMAN