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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 24

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I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Reading, Ipads, Mind

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Writing, Fiction, Stuff

"Author Neil Gaiman Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 22, 2011.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

People, Ambitious, Succeed

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Fiction, Life Is, Stranger

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Country, Thinking, Fiction

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

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Nice, Fans, Literature

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

Stories, Truth Is, Great Things

"Neil Gaiman Writes a Final 'Love Letter to Batman'". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. April 21, 2009.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Naked, May, Moments

"Neil Gaiman's Commencement Speech Is The Must-Watch Thing Of The Day" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. April 21, 2012.

The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.

People, Irritated, Following

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Children, Reading, Way

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.22, Hachette UK

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Doe, Looks, Literature

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

Found

"Neil Gaiman: Literary Rock Star and Me". Interview with Jeffrey Berman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2010.

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

Wall, Kids, Doors

"Author Neil Gaiman Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 22, 2011.

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.

Imagination, Looks, Gone

With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

Children, Reading, Years

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

Morning, Children, Adults

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.2, Harper Collins

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

Goodbye, Moral, Sandman

"I Woke Up And One Of Us Was Crying". Comics series by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #36, A Game of You, November 1991 - May 1992.

Nothin’ wrong with witchfinding. I’d like to be a witchfinder. It’s just, well, you’ve got to take it in turns. Today we’ll go out witchfinding, an’ tomorrow we could hide, an’ it’d be the witches’ turn to find US.

Today, Tomorrow, Witch

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

He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Fun, Silly, Apples

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

Life, Morning, Bed

Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.81, A&C Black

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Lost Love, Giving, Devil

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

Regret, Lying, Dark

"American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.

Writing, Dark, Thinking

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.

Dream, Would Be, Stories

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.11, Harper Collins

You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.

Mean, Thinking, Clouds

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