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Stories Quotes by Neil Gaiman

94 Stories quotes by Neil Gaiman

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A short story refuses to die, like a tenacious vampire that lives on through generations. The writer warns to trust the story, not the storyteller, and suggests rereading with fresh eyes. Short tales are described as tiny windows into other worlds and minds.

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“We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...”

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Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

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Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

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On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

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Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

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We owe it to each other to tell stories.

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Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

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We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

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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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“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

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What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

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The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

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“That’s an Anansi story. ’Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.”

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The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the…

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She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that…

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in…

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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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As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled…

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“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales…

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In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no…

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“So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand,…

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“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep…

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There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped…

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The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you…

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We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we…

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“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and…

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“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger…

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Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and…

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A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone…

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THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places…

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“Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been…

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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 short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that…

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Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are…

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Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be…

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Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

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A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or…

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The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

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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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“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…

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

“[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”