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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 15

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Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Advice, Poet, Sensible

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.142, A&C Black

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

People, World, Want

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.178, A&C Black

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

Cities, Healthy, London

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.44, Harper Collins

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

Watches, Raw Materials, Life Is

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Failing, Dear, Persons

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

New Year, Mistake, Years

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.

Real, Reading, Writing

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

Writing, Adventure, Long

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.412, Hachette UK

Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

One Word, Right Words

"Your rules for writing" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Past, Voice, Library

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.

Beautiful, Ocean, Generations

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.15, HarperCollins

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

Lonely, Teenager, Writing

"Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

Beach, Writing, Sky

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

Giving, Library, Citizens

"Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

Life Is, Foolish

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.185, A&C Black

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

Book, Kissing, Thinking

This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top

Home, Body, Flesh

It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

Appreciate, Too Late, Late

I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.

Hurt, Real, Writing

"The Sandman. Issue #75: The Tempest". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

Country, Talking, People

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Travel, Somewhere Else

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.63, A&C Black

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Writing, Novelists, May

She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

Silly, Doors, Feelings

Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

Mistake, Mean, Years

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

Loyalty, Elephants, Leader

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