Story Quotes by Neil Gaiman

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

— Neil Gaiman

“I like things to be story-shaped.”

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“Trust your heart, trust your story.”

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

— Neil Gaiman

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

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

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“People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.”

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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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“Our worries, fears and dreams make fantastic stories. Take them with you as you grow up.”

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“you got a story to tell, and you are the only one who can tell it. Don't give up!”

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A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

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

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“The way a story is told is as important as the story being told, although the way that the story is told…

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Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it…

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“A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of Scotland, where the bones of the…

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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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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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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write…

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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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“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that people in the story change.But I was seven when all these things…

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“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the…

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There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out…

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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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One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They…

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

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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I…

— Neil Gaiman