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Neil Gaiman Quotes about Giving

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

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

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

Giving, Freedom Of Speech, Speech

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

Giving, Principles, Atoms

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

Knowing Everything, Giving, Stuff

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

Giving, Library, Citizens

"Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

Writing, Eye, Giving

And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.

Selfish, Giving, Scared

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

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

Girl, Giving, Feelings

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

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Lost Love, Giving, Devil

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Death, Patience, Giving

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.21, Harper Collins

I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter.

Dog, Giving, Advice

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

Giving, Choices, Looks

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.114, A&C Black

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

Writing, Otters, Giving

That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

Girl, People, Giving

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

Believe, Creating, Giving

"Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

Space, Safety, Giving

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

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

Giving, Temptation, Lust

"Season of Mists (The Sandman, Book 4)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, December 1990 – July 1991.

If you give a writer a pile of blank paper and say you can write anything you like on any subject you want at any length you want, you will probably never get anything at all, whereas if you have 900 words to write, and it's fiction that is somehow op-ed fiction, and it needs to tie in with Halloween . . . okay, those are my constraints, that's where I now need to start building something.

Halloween, Writing, Giving

Source: www.raintaxi.com

I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.

Giving, The End Of The Day, Needs

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

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