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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 4

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The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

Real, World, Sometimes

"Exclusive Interview: Neil Gaiman on The Weird". WeirdFictionReview.com Interview, weirdfictionreview.com. November 1, 2011.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Women, Book, Naked

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

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Phoenix, Doe, Lost

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

New Year, Art, Mistake

"My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

People, Different, World

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.12, HarperCollins

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

Happy Endings

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Heart, Safe, Sometimes

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Heart, Most Romantic, Lovers

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

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

Believe, Ocean, Book

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

I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.

Art, Hurt, Mean

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

Running, Art, Husband

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

Dream, Heart, May

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.21, Hachette UK

Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

Moving, Writing, Perfection

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

Dream, Stuff

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

Life, Stars, Mean

"The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

Stories, Never Trust, Sandman

"Fables & Reflections (The Sandman, Book 6)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August – October 1991, June – August 1992, June 1993.

None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The world that's important is the world behind each of our eyes, which is something that none of the rest of us can access.

Eye, Important, World

"Neil Gaiman On Returning To 'Sandman,' Talking In His Sleep And The Power Of Comics". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wutc.org. December 17, 2015.

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.

Book, Healing, Hands

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.

Running, Weed, Rain

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Lying, Writing, Stories

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Dream, Forever, Unforgettable

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

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Real, Book, Flexible

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

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

Party, Home, Good Times

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

Suicide, Bridges

Neil Gaiman (2016). “Neil Gaiman's Troll Bridge”, p.33, Dark Horse Comics

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

Book, Reading, World

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