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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 6

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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Kings, Cat, Owning A Pet

"A Dream of a Thousand Cats". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman series, issue #18, 1990.

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

Writing, Good Day, Cat

It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

Lying, Easier, Loud

Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with.

Children, Disappointment, Father

Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

Sex, Two, People

I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.

Running, Believe, Long

I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

Cutting, Editors, Scripts

"The Sandman Companion". Book by Hy Bender, 1999.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

Mistake, Fall, Sometimes

"The Sandman: Fables and Reflections". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1993.

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Baby, Pain, Sleep

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Art, Parameters, Bounce

Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

Reality, Echoes, Storm

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Writing, Thinking, People

"Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

Views, Where You Are, Heal

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.108, Hachette UK

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

Beautiful, Fall, Sometimes

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Believe, Cat, Deserve

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

And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

Done, Made, Havens

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.412, Hachette UK

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

Problem

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

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

Relationship, Break Up, Thinking

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

Children, Parenting, Age

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.7, Harper Collins

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

Age, Looks, World

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

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

Doe, Where You Come, Matter

Neil Gaiman (2014). “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, p.24, Hachette UK

You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

Successful, Rocks, Sea

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

Adults, Coraline, Made

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

Joy, Sorrow, Together

There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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