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Neil Gaiman - From the Activity category:
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Advice category:
Make good art. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Ambition category:
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Beginning category:
When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Blocks category:
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Books category:
I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful,
and don't forget to make some art... (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Books category:
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Children category:
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Choices category:
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say, 'What kind of tea?' (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Communication category:
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)
Neil Gaiman - From the Creativity category:
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Criticism category:
I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff, in that when I look, all I get to see are the flaws. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Danger category:
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)
Neil Gaiman - From the Deception category:
I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Editing category:
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Education category:
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Effort category:
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. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Future category:
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Humanity category:
-American Gods...
I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars... (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Ideas category:
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. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Imagination category:
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Influence category:
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)
Neil Gaiman - From the Information category:
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. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Insecurity category:
-The Graveyard Book...
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Interest category:
Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting area. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Joy category:
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette... and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Knowledge category:
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Life category:
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Limitations category:
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Magic category:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Mistakes category:
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes... you're Doing Something. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Obsession category:
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. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Possessions category:
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Questions category:
You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Risk category:
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Rules category:
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Solitude category:
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Subject category:
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Teaching category:
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 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)
Neil Gaiman - From the Technology category:
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Technology category:
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Time category:
I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Truth category:
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. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Truth category:
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Uniqueness category:
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Vulnerability category:
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Windows category:
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Winning category:
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. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Words category:
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. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Writing category:
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman - From the Writing category:
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. (Neil Gaiman)
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