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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 39

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Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

Legends, Truth Is, Enough

We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

Men, Thinking, Our World

Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear (2014). “Lovecraft's Monsters”, p.21, Tachyon Publications

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

Dumb, Luck, World

Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear (2014). “Lovecraft's Monsters”, p.21, Tachyon Publications

That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

Girl, People, Giving

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

Heart, Night, Tree

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

Eggs, Golden, Geese

Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

What If, One Day, Daleks

Neil Gaiman (2015). “Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances”, p.203, Hachette UK

Leave no path untaken.

Path

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.189, A&C Black

Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.

Writing, Ideas, Mad

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

Aversion, Found, Hardy

There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to lose, those who feel that the time has come for revolution ... then out on the edges beyond any of those are science fiction fans whose favorite show has been canceled in an untimely way.

People, Upset, World

Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.

Looks, Sandman, Catchers

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

Cities, Pay, London

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Neverwhere: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

Important, Important Things, Hard

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

Style, Made

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

Classic, Should, Deadline

I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.

Taken, Eye, Class

Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life....As a side note, running Windows Vista on the Panasonic w7 is making me really nostalgic for 1986. Whoever thought I'd get to type things then stare at a blank screen for a bit and one-by-one watch the letters appear? Cory and Mike's 'Why Don't You Run Linux?' talks are staring to seem much more sensible.

Running, Love Of My Life, Watches

As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.

Book, Writing, Thinking

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

Jars, Needs, Reminding

When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)

Encyclopedia Britannica, Usual, Favourite

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

Thinking, Ideas, Waiting

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Art, Thinking, Stories

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Writing, Play, Musical

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Writing, People, Would Be

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