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People Quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman reminds us that books don’t write themselves. He says making a story needs thought, research, and hard work. He also points out that there are many places to see and people to meet, and that gods and even people can be forgotten if no one remembers them.

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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

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Books were safer than other people anyway.

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So many things to see, people to do.

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In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

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I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

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There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

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Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.

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That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

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I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it…

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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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Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not…

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The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

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It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

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Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

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Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand…

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People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just…

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Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly…

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That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I…

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Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,…

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“Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land…

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The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody…

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Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’…

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As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment…

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Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile…

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Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star…

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When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People…

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I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that…

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The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven…

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“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right.…

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There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist…

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You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays…

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Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most…

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You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is…

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All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

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People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath.

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Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need…

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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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There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

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So many things to see, people to do.

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

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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”