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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 14

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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

People, Looks, Complicated

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Obscurity, Fame, Notoriety

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

Thinking, May, Sin

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

Dream, Growing Up, Grows

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

Knowing Everything, Giving, Stuff

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

Two, People, Different

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

Sound, Ifs

I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

Evil, Triumph, Action

"The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.

Thinking, Answers, Weird Things

I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.

Couple, Thinking, Two

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

Real, Men, Thinking

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

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

Writing, Worry, People

Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that.

Sleep, World, Murder

This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph.

Real, Wish, Cameras

There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him, or her) you fall in love so hard, so fast, that your soul is pulled out through your eyes. I like that story.

Beautiful, Falling In Love, Eye

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

People, Stories, May

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Writing, Needs, Stories

"Ten rules for writing fiction" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Writing, Years, Next Year

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

Dog, Fun, People

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Writing, Needs, Stories

"Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

Dark, Littles, Apocalypse

Neil Gaiman (2016). “Signal to Noise”, p.51, Dark Horse Comics

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Song, Dynasty, Emperor

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.6, Harper Collins

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

People, Matter, Stories

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.148, Hachette UK

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

Perfectly Good, Teeth, Arseholes

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

Stars, Journey, Rocks

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