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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
British Author
Born: Nov 10, 1960
Book People Think World Writing You
Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming J. G. Ballard James Allen Marcus Buckingham Virginia Woolf
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. Neil Gaiman
New Year's Hope You Learning Yourself World Mistakes Making Mistakes Year Before New Things Living Changing Something More Never Pushing New Come Make Because Making Doing Importantly Trying Done Then Your Things
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
You Vision Mind Dance Build Live Else Draw One Thing Only Voice Write Nobody Nobody Else The One Thing Story Your Play Thing
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
Health Library Mental Health World Safety Space Citizen Community Every Mental Haven Gives Equal Access Repository Information Place
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. Neil Gaiman
People Building Tool More Allowing Empathy Individuals Than Us Groups Function
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Neil Gaiman
Life Because Always Than Going Fiction Convincing Stranger
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. Neil Gaiman
World Giving Important Sense Live Believe Incredibly Our Our Lives Ways Possibly Allowing Empathy Make Understand Escape Stories Us Creating Lives
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
People Worlds Carry Seemed Only Never He He Or She She Known Within Least Anyone Them Who
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman
Love You Heart Inside Horrible Someone Opens Mess Vulnerable Makes Been Chest Up Get Means Your Ever
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. Neil Gaiman
Imagination Muscle
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
Dreams Time You Dinner Universe Other Worlds Side Back Minds Windows Journeys Make Still Short Tiny Stories Short Stories Far
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. Neil Gaiman
Will Be True Dust Shadow Facts Mere True Adventures Tales Truths Forgotten Endure Happened Ashes Things Need
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
Best Needs You Matter Honestly Other Rules Tell Write Written Sure Any Story Your
As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. Neil Gaiman
Never Daydream How Author Forgotten
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
Reading Way Pleasurable Simplest Make Read Sure Children Literate Them Teach Show Activity Raise
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
You People Take For Granted Sky Tree Oak Tell Beach More More Or Less Take Like Know Look Makes Shop Different Them Granted Less Street
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? Neil Gaiman
People Bonus Kind Eat Some Hot Hot Dogs Chemical Dogs Reason Why
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. Neil Gaiman
Think Add Respectable Brother Like Know Also Glory Still Short Short Story Story Younger Younger Brother Novel
I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. Neil Gaiman
Book Think Bad Children Such A Thing Thing
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
Cause Books Bookshelf Possession Would Had Proudest Been
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in. Neil Gaiman
Truth Great Truth Is Better Superman Batman About Most Great Thing Than Transcendent Literally Stories Thing
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. Neil Gaiman
Freedom Rights Legal Fight Book Sometimes Losing First Freedom Of Speech Fighting Defense Preserving Out More Winning Generally First Amendment First Amendment Rights Comic Comic Book Comics Amendment Amendment Rights Fund Speech
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer. Neil Gaiman
Writer Fairly Undisciplined
I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. Neil Gaiman
Writing About Maybe Started
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. Neil Gaiman
Time Generation Wonderful Our Our Generation Kind Vampire Some Seems Tenacious Point Like Particularly Die Short Refuses Short Story Story Length
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. Neil Gaiman
Everything Ourselves Tell Only Bearable Could Know Make Just
I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. Neil Gaiman
Publish Relieved Written Always Anyone Anything Wants
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