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.

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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.

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Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.

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And so there is magic.

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You say I have no power Perhaps you speak truly ... but you say that dreams have no power here Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar ... ask yourselves, all of you ... what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven

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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.

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Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood in Mr Young.

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Writing a book is lonelier and slower than writing comics. The joy of comics is that you have somebody to talk to. What you're writing isn't what anybody reads, it's a letter to an artist. There's immediate gratification as you start getting feedback on it.

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The devil made me do it I have never made one of them do anything. They live their own lives. I do not live their lives for them.

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The deal was very, very simple. From Henson, it was, We will give you not enough money to make a film with, and in return, we will leave you alone. You get creative control. Give us (a) family fantasy film,'

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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

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And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

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American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

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If this isnaat literature, nothing is.

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I think the First Amendment is probably the most important thing that you have in this country. And I'm always horrified at the cavalier way that you (Americans) treat it.

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Also, I've already won all the awards.

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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

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As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us and we must walk that road to the end.

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is not a big, solid, serious book.

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Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

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