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 GAIMANWhat do stars do? They shine.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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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.
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