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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 47

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The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to

The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.

Numbers, Trying, Demand

"Neil Gaiman Talks DOCTOR WHO Episode “Nightmare in Silver,” Evolving the Cybermen, Creating the Cybermites, His View on the TARDIS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2013.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

Virginia, People, Toasters

Source: movieweb.com

I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.

People, Rewriting, Facts

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

Clay, Stories, Stuff

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

I love learning. I tend to stop doing things once I get good at them, and to try something else I'm not as good at, leaving a bunch of fans going, "But he was really good at that. Why isn't he still doing it?"

Leaving, Trying, Fans

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

Mistake, Next, Fool

Source: www.avclub.com

The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven thousand people, all of whom were dreadfully nice. Everything else, the interviews, the hotels, the plane travel, the best-seller lists, even the sushi, gets old awfully fast. Well, maybe not the sushi.

Nice, Book, Numbers

"Neil Gaiman on writing and 'American Gods'". www.cnn.com. July 30, 2001.

I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work.

May, Want, Next

"Neil Gaiman on writing and 'American Gods'". www.cnn.com. July 30, 2001.

Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.

Trying, Fans, Gone

I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.

Writing, Thinking, Race

I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.

Writing, School, Years

"Ask the Author Live:Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.

Mirrors, Strange, Wonderful

"Ask the Author Live:Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever... For me, the world is simply composed of stories, when I look, that's what I see.

Theatre, Looks, Stories

Source: www.naylor.net

If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

Morning, Distance, Writing

"Interview with Neil Gaiman". Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

Block, Believe, Knowing

"Interview with Neil Gaiman". Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

Thinking, Together, Needs

"Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.

Writing, Bored, Elements

"Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

Games, Video, Guilty

Interview with Andrew Vestal and Nich Maragos, thegia.com.

"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.

Ocean, Ideas, Sometimes

"Neil Gaiman interview: The year of living crazily". Interview with David Barnett, www.independent.co.uk. June 9, 2013.

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.

Book, Writing, Successful

Interview with Phillip Duncan, www.dvdtalk.com.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

Dream, Thinking, Doe

"Neil Gaiman On Returning To 'Sandman,' Talking In His Sleep And The Power Of Comics". "Fresh Air" with Sam Briger, www.npr.org. December 15, 2015.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

People, Creative, Sparks

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

Art, Boundaries, Happens

I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors in the world, a guy called Harry Stephen Keeler, a long dead American mystery writer. He was probably the greatest bad writer America ever produced.

America, Long, Guy

Source: www.sffworld.com

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

Finding Yourself, Coins, Want

"Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

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