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Real Quotes by Neil Gaiman

27 Real quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman’s 27 musings on reality walk the line between the fantastical and the everyday, reminding us that the ordinary can hold a spark of magic. His prose feels like a whispered secret from a storyteller who’s always listening to the world’s hidden verses.

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“Only the Gods are real.”

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“Books are real places, make no mistake about that”

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First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

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Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

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“And books are real places, make no mistake about that.”

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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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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too…

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Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear…

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The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

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You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

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In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that…

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It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a…

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People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of…

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If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each…

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I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the…

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This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera…

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I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched…

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I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man…

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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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Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt…

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People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real…

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The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real…

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I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where…

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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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There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are…

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She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.…

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In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an…

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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…

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

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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 his eyes,…

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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.”

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So many things to see, people to do.

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

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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…

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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…

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“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

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

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

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What do stars do? They shine.

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

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

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

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