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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 12

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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

Book, Writing, Body

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

Heart, Thinking, Growing

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.152, Hachette UK

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

Years, World, Finals

"Signal to Noise". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

Optimism, World, Twins

So many things to see, people to do.

People

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

Wine, Eye, Yellow

"Season of Mists (The Sandman #21: Prologue)". Book by Neil Gaiman, December 1990 – July 1991.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Change, Life Changing, Graveyard

You don't have to stay anywhere forever.

Forever, Sandman

Neil Gaiman (2011). “The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists”, p.2, DC

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Confused, Confusion, Wish

"Mirrormask". www.imdb.com. 2005.

Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.

Ultimate Freedom, Ultimate

Take what you have learned, and move on.

Moving

It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.

Dream, Forever, Details

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.

Jobs, Writing, Winning

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

Wise, Children, Book

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

Writing, Destiny, What Matters

Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can actually, essentially communicate with the people in ancient Egypt, people in Rome and Greece, people in ancient Britain, people in New York in the 1920s who can communicate to us and change the way we think, and change the things that we believe. I think that books are special. Books are sacred. And I think that when you are selling books, you have to remember that in all the profits and loss, in all of that, you are treading on sacred ground.

New York, Believe, Book

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

Dream, Mean, Names

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Song, People, Stories

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.201, Hachette UK

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

Thinking, Numbers, Fiction

Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves (2013). “Interworld (Interworld, Book 1)”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

People, Darkness, Keyboards

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

Angel, Remember, Lucifer

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Adventure, Dust, Shadow

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

Giving, Principles, Atoms

I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

Airplane

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

War, Imagination, Soldier

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