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Inspirational Quotes by Neil Gaiman

62 Inspirational quotes by Neil Gaiman

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A shadow crawls across a floor, then a blanket is pulled over a sleeping figure. The quotes urge writers to finish what they start and to keep exploring the magic in everyday life. They also remind us that words can save us and that learning comes from simply writing.

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Whither thou goest...

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Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

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Leave no path untaken.

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Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

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I learned to write by writing.

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Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

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And so there is magic.

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Words save our lives, sometimes.

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Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

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Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

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Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

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Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

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The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

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Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

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I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

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I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

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“Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.”

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Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what…

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“Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.”

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There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock…

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Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

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The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

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

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss…

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If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are…

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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…

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story…

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“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed…

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“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch…

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“The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a…

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“She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that…

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“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's…

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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…

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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

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Without dreams, there could be no despair.

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From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

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If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do

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“If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.”

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“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

So many things to see, people to do.

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written…

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

What do stars do? They shine.

“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”