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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 19

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Mostly you are what they think you are.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

Thinking

Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.134, Hachette UK

It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

Butterfly, Views, Europe

"Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.' 'They kill themselves, you mean?' said Bod. [...] 'Indeed.' 'Does it work? Are they happier dead?' 'Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Believe, Mean, Somewhere Else

Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.

People, Killing

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

Girl, Home, Cities

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

Storm, Opiates, World

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Men, Shadow, American Gods

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

Easier, Visible, Ifs

It felt like a small forever.

Forever, Felt

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.164, A&C Black

Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.

Summer, Would Be, World

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

Selfish, Bored, Problem

Neil Gaiman, Steven-Elliot Altman, Brian Stableford (2003). “Shadows Over Baker Street”, p.12, Del Rey

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

Messy, Amiable, Vague

Source: www.teenink.com

Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.

Night, Light, Should Have

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Wise, Men, Fool

Neil Gaiman (2014). “Neil Gaiman Young Readers' Collection: Odd and the Frost Giants; Coraline; The Graveyard Book; Fortunately, the Milk”, p.25, Harper Collins

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

Stories, Humans

Source: www.naylor.net

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Jesus, Guy, Thieves

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

Writing, Waiting, Firsts

Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

Brave, Would Be, Scared

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Neverwhere: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.

Running, People, Running Away

The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. It's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as I was doing a comic, people would pick it up.

Writing, Long, People

Source: www.raintaxi.com

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.

Brave, Care, Imaginary

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.37, A&C Black

We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.

Children, Writing, Men

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

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

Lying, Breathing, People

"Stardust - Matthew Vaughn and Neil Gaiman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.

Successful, Fiction Novels, Talking

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

Whatever's happening," she said, eventually, "it can all be sorted out." She saw the expression on my face then, worried. Scared even. And she said, "After pancakes.

Expression, Pancakes, Faces

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