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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 18

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There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

War, Believe, Humility

Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.157, Hachette UK

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

Thinking, World, Wreckage

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

Book, People, Magic

Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio (2010). “Stories: All-New Tales”, p.1, Harper Collins

Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

Stars, Stardust, Star Gazing

"Fictional character: Narrator". "Stardust", 2007.

You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

Fans, Want, Open Relationship

You think you're being given all of these things: phones that can communicate with other devices, car service that's better than a taxi, all of these amazing things that are available to you at any time. It isn't until you've swum across the river that you can start to see the negative aspects of it all.

Thinking, Car, Negative

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It seems to me that one of the most interesting things about God as a concept, if you decide to believe in God, is that God's ways are unknowable. And God obviously, look at the world around you, does or is responsible for some terrible, terrible, awful things. A young girl kidnapped and kept in the darkness and sexually abused. The deaths of six million Jews. A mudslide that buries a village. All of these things. If God is doing the good stuff, he's got to be doing that stuff too.

Girl, Believe, Interesting

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While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

Men, Clothes, Bird

Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.

Winter, Names, Yellow

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Stories, Elements, Littles

"Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". TIME interview, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.

Dark, Past, People

"Gaiman & Pratchett, Together Again... Almost". Locus Interview, www.locusmag.com. March 1991.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Shadow, Casts

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

Brave, Coraline, Be Brave

Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.71, A&C Black

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

Long, Causes, American Gods

"Biography/Personal Quotes". en.wikiquote.org.

I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

People

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

Be Good, Ifs

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I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.

Worry

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.145, A&C Black

Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.

Children, Reading, Kids

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

Opportunity

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.39, Harper Collins

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Writing, Effort, Today

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

Dream, Years, Magic

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.

Country, Book, Long

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

The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop.

Fighting, Golf, Play

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

Shining, Want, Diamond

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

Beautiful, Horrible, Aesthetic

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