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Time Quotes by Neil Gaiman

178 Time quotes by Neil Gaiman

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When you don’t know where you’re going it always seems longer, a feeling that stretches time. The words on a page can tell the date of an old sci‑fi novel, showing how language dates the future. Ray Bradbury’s claim that he created his time reminds us that creators shape time.

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“time was an idea for which he no longer had any need.”

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In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

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“Today's future is tomorrow's yesterday.”

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Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

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“We are writing the future in Letters of Fire.”

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“Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment.”

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“But time heals. Or at least it forms scabs.”

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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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“waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come, and against the moments one was currently disregarding.”

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The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to…

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“The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life.”

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There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

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Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

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There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

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“He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.”

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“There's things, times. When, well, you don't know what to say. You know?”

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“At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in…

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“The moments of déjà vu were coming more frequently, now. Moments would stutter and hiccup and falter and repeat. Sometimes whole mornings…

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“For a moment, upon waking, he had NO idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if…

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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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“There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he…

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The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if,…

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“And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes? I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes…

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I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here,…

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“Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every…

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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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“Where’s Rory? I want him, right now,’ demanded Amy as the TARDIS lurched away into space and time. The Doctor had only…

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“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the…

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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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“Your turn in the chair next time,” said October. “I know,” said November. He was pale and thin-lipped. He helped October out…

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Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs…

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Everything has to be intrinsic plot-wise in the same way, to use the Linda Williams analogy but to move it on a…

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“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to…

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“We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries.…

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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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“In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something…

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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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“I don’t ever remember being afraid of “oldness”. There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull…

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“THE DAY THE SAUCERS CAME “That day, the saucer day the zombie day The Ragnarok and fairies day, the day the great…

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“In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed.…

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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,”

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”