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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 5

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But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment,

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

Communication, School, Ideas

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.13, HarperCollins

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

Book, Ideas, People

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

Secret, Storm, Lightning

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Writing, Ideas, Differences

"Where do you get your ideas?" by Neil Gaiman, www.neilgaiman.com. 1997.

The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different- you're stronger, you've seen more, you've felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency.

Spiritual, Stronger, Different

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

Children, Thinking, Media

"American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

Work Out, Assuming, Trouble

"The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.

Artist, Views, Done

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Life, Happiness, Hurt

"The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.

Notebook, Light, Blood

Source: www.npr.org

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

Dream, Hope, Heart

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

Real, Names, Magic

"The Books of Magic (Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

Getting What You Want, Sandman, Wanted

"Dream Country (The Sandman, Book 3)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, July – October 1990.

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

Life, Believe, Responsibility

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

Choices, Tea, Kind

Neil Gaiman @neilhimself, twitter.com. February 25, 2009.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?

Lying, Safe, Way

"American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.

Spring, Dancing, Demand

Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

Graduation, Crumbling, Nobody Knows

"The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2016.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

Sleep, Giving, Boredom

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.200, Hachette UK

The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

Giving, Advice, Scared

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.138, Hachette UK

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Children, Adults, Stories

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

Even nothing cannot last forever.

Forever, Lasts

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

Choices, Path, Sometimes

If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

Men, Cells, Years

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