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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 7

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Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Disease, Life Is, Sexually

Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

Jobs, Hardest Job, People

To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.

Love Is, Thinking, People

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

Believe, Reading, Exercise

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

Girl, World, Digital

Neil Gaiman (2015). “American Gods: Roman”, p.309, BASTEI LÜBBE

When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.

Book, Kids, Men

Source: www.sffworld.com

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

Girlfriend, Lying, Believe

"American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman. Chapter 13, 2001.

It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.

Home, Fishing, Mind

Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.168, Hachette UK

Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.

Pain, Hate, Soul

In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that.

Baby, Thinking, People

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

Book, Soul, May

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

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

Summer, Dog, Boys

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

Growing Up, Kindness, Lying

With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories.

Laughing, Trying, Three

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

I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.

Art, Thinking, Keys

"An Evening With Neil Gaiman And Amanda Palmer: Ask Us Anything. Go On. Go On You Know You Want To". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 19, 2013.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

Love, School, Optimistic

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

Crazy, Mean, Want

I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.

Book, Writing, Age

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

Cages, Way, Sometimes

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

How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.

Mother, Trying, Doe

Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing

Too soon, the sun will rise.

Sun

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.152, A&C Black

It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Apr 14, 2010

Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem...

Men, Doctors, Blue

"Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters, www.bbc.com. May 24, 2010.

People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.

Real, People, Google

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Ninety Nine, Doe, Never Trust

"Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, Book 1)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, January – August 1989.

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