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Neil Gaiman Quotes

Most of us only find our own voices after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people Picture Quote #1

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation Picture Quote #1

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything Picture Quote #1

Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it Picture Quote #1

I know that this is the internet, and we’re all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn’t hurt to try to be nice Picture Quote #1

Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway Picture Quote #1

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Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over Picture Quote #1

Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving Picture Quote #1

I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil, as a caution Picture Quote #1

You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up Picture Quote #1

I hope the strong women out there aren’t quiet and they don’t go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were Picture Quote #1

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story Picture Quote #1

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If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future Picture Quote #1

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue Picture Quote #1

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it Picture Quote #1

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you Picture Quote #1

There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous Picture Quote #1

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it Picture Quote #1

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As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children’s library until I finished the children’s library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them Picture Quote #1

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn’t be a brick wall. So I’d sidle over to the door and I’d pull it open Picture Quote #1

When you’re starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that’s gone before and the stuff that’s influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that’s where you start from Picture Quote #1

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It’s looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it’s a special place where everything’s okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it’s just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it’s a special world... and I like it Picture Quote #1

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Most of us only find our own voices after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people (Neil Gaiman Quotes) We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation (Neil Gaiman Quotes) You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything (Neil Gaiman Quotes) Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it (Neil Gaiman Quotes) I know that this is the internet, and we’re all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn’t hurt to try to be nice (Neil Gaiman Quotes) Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway (Neil Gaiman Quotes) Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over (Neil Gaiman Quotes) Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving (Neil Gaiman Quotes) I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil, as a caution (Neil Gaiman Quotes) You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else (Neil Gaiman Quotes) Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around (Neil Gaiman Quotes) 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 (Neil Gaiman Quotes) If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up (Neil Gaiman Quotes) I hope the strong women out there aren’t quiet and they don’t go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever (Neil Gaiman Quotes) 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 (Neil Gaiman Quotes) 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 (Neil Gaiman Quotes) I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were (Neil Gaiman Quotes) There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story (Neil Gaiman Quotes) If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future (Neil Gaiman Quotes) You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue (Neil Gaiman Quotes) Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it (Neil Gaiman Quotes) The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you (Neil Gaiman Quotes) There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous (Neil Gaiman Quotes) A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it (Neil Gaiman Quotes) As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children’s library until I finished the children’s library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them (Neil Gaiman Quotes) When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn’t be a brick wall. So I’d sidle over to the door and I’d pull it open (Neil Gaiman Quotes) When you’re starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that’s gone before and the stuff that’s influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that’s where you start from (Neil Gaiman Quotes) One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this (Neil Gaiman Quotes) 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 (Neil Gaiman Quotes) You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It’s looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it’s a special place where everything’s okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it’s just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it’s a special world... and I like it (Neil Gaiman Quotes)

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