Neil Gaiman Quotes

Dedicated to the ever Quotable Neil Gaiman.

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Question: 'I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?'
"Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."

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"Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill." #FragileThings

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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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"If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained." #TheGraveyardBook

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"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy." #TOATEOTL

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“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.” #TheSandman #DreamCountry

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Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway." #Coraline

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“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.” #Writingadvice

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"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible." #TheOceanAtTheEndOfTheLane

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"If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports." #AmericanGods - @neilhimself

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"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people." #GoodOmens

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"We make choices. No one else can lives our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions." #TheSandman - @neilhimself

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"There was only a poem, which took flesh and walked and spread itself across the vastness of the known." #HowToTalkToGirlsAtParties

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"Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."

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"Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story." #Sandman

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"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”

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"I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us.We just keep going anyhow.It’s what we do.” #AmericanGods

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"If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?” #Sandman

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"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you." #TheGraveyardBook

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"The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision."