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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 37

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Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.

Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.

Monsters, Scared, Said

"The Ocean At the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

Believe, Adults, Enough

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Book, Writing, Ideas

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

Children, People, Shooting

"'So many ways to die in Syria now': Neil Gaiman visits a refugee camp in Jordan" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2014.

Without dreams, there could be no despair.

Dream, Despair, Sandman

"The Sandman.Fables and Reflections". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman,

We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

Wall, Fields, Different

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

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

Children, Lying, Writing

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

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

Art, Thinking, People

I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.

Reading, School, Mean

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

Dream, Decision, Lord

Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

Love You, Endless, Hard

Neil Gaiman (2004). “The Sandman: Endless Nights”, p.10, Vertigo

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

Wise, Fear, Men

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

People, Guy, Good Guy

"The Books of Magic. Book II: The Shadow World". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1990 - 1991.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Ideas, Design, Truth Is

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

Inspirational, Graduation, Needs

Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.

Sex, Believe, Done

"American Gods". Book byNeil Gaiman, Chapter 13, 2001.

And so there is magic.

Magic

I learned to write by writing.

Writing

Neil Gaiman (2013). “Make Good Art”, p.36, Hachette UK

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

Voice, People

Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

Writing, Otters, Giving

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

Dream, Other Worlds, Mind

Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

Use, Blogs

"Neil Gaiman On Authors Blogging: ‘Connect, Don’t Network’", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

Dark, Understanding, Protection

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

Thinking, People, Should

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

Library, Gates

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

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