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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 17

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Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

Moving, Wish, Plot

You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.

Mother, Love You, Eye

"Coraline". Book by Neil Gaiman, January 24, 2002.

My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you.

Love, Heart, Trying

"Stardust". www.imdb.com. 2007.

It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.

Perfectly Normal, Spheres, Cylinders

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

Ocean, Hundred, Miles

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

Reflection, Remember, Forget

What do I do now?” “I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.

Roles, Fades, Knows

Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

Hurt, Just Smile, Wonderful

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.107, Hachette UK

Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future.

Dream, Memories, Son

I was not scared of anything, when I read my book.

Book, Scared

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.54, Hachette UK

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

Different, Way, Different Ways

Source: www.npr.org

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

Children, Adults, Use

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.103, Hachette UK

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

Wall, Wonderful, Given

"Neil Gaiman Talks DOCTOR WHO Episode “Nightmare in Silver,” Evolving the Cybermen, Creating the Cybermites, His View on the TARDIS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 8, 2013.

And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right. Happy Eighth birthday, blog.

Book, Writing, Eight

You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?

Sex, Couple, Mean

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Dream, Song, Dust

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Book, World, Cheaper

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

New Year, Mistake, Years

If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.

Character, Interesting, Important

"The Father's Day & Invisible Plane Post" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. June 21, 2009.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

Dream, Intangible, Fragile Things

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Teacher, Growing Up, Book

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.73, Hachette UK

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Library, Littles, Corn

"Neil Gaiman: Libraries are cultural 'seed corn'". Interview with Toby Litt, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2014.

One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die.

Interesting, Losing, Ability

Source: www.gq.com

You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

Special, Helping, Unfair

Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."

Agreement, Yellow, Guy

"Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, May 1, 1990.

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