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Reading Quotes by Neil Gaiman

42 Reading quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman remembers devouring any book he could find as a child, and he warns that adults can crush a kid’s love of reading. He describes comics as a three‑person partnership between writer, artist, and reader. He also believes that reading for pleasure is a shared duty that can spark wonder at any age.

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Libraries are our friends.

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“He was the boy with the book. Always and forever.”

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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

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

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“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.”

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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that…

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“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.”

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I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware…

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I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do…

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Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among…

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When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

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You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible.…

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Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that…

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I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page…

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I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going…

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I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if…

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I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not…

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I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually…

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“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end…

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“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big…

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“Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I…

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“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those…

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“We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung,…

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I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page…

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“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what…

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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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Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read…

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“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn…

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I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d…

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Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're…

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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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“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if…

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I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has…

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Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires,…

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With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the…

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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then…

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“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from…

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The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever…

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Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the…

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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”