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Neil Gaiman Inspirational Quotes (673)

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Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.
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The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.
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He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.
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Writing may or may not be your salvation it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.
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I'm a stranger, pointed out Bod. You're not, she said, definitely. You're a little boy. And then she said, And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.
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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.
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Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.
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Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
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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.
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I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.
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The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.
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I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.
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When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
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Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.
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Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.
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On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.
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I would read. I would explore
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Libraries are our friends.
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All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.
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You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.
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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...
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