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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 45

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Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. Would you like one? she asked the little dog. Yes, please, whispered the dog. Only not toffee ones. They make me drool. I thought chocolates

Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool." "I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her. "Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat.

Dog, Missing, Chocolate

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

Mother, Hair, Sea

Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.54, A&C Black

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

World, Littles, Shimmer

Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.

Dream, Moving, Yesterday

He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?' 'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.

Wise, Dream, Revenge

The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before.

Autumn, Cutting, Feet

He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

Home, Alive, Want

I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

Thinking, Upset, Care

Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

War, Mean, Rabbits

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

Liars, Writing, Fiction

If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

Boys, Play, Devil

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman”, p.16, Marvel Entertainment

When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

Jobs, Light, Waiting

"The Sandman: Dream Country". Book by Neil Gaiman. Sandman #20: "Façade", 1991.

The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.

Daylight, Safe, Converses

Neil Gaiman (2009). “M Is for Magic”, p.25, Harper Collins

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

Writing, Coal, Newcastle

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

Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.

Life, Football, Islands

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.188, A&C Black

You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

Thinking, Lakes, Want Something

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

Sweet, Wine, Poison

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.

Believe, Thinking, Mcdonalds

I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.

Smart, Soul, Unhappy

Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.

Home, Forgotten

I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.

Jobs, Care, Stills

"Smoke and Mirrors". Book by Neil Gaiman, October, 1998.

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

Children, Important, Fiction

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.21, HarperCollins

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

Writing, Trying, American Gods

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I think that the biggest, quickest and hardest thing to learn for a writer is that what we think of as the unchanging verities of story are a load of bollocks. Absolute rubbish. There are no unchanging verities.

Thinking

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The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real world, in that I'm trying to write about whatever it is the experience that makes us human, the things that we have in common.

Dream, Real, Writing

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