I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANWe owe it to each other to tell stories.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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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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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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Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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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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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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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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