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Important Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- 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.
- We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important…
- If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they are and what…
- I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us…
- It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in…
- There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the…
- Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was…
- [D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your…
- The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the…
- Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.
- You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.
- I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what…
- Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from…
- Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and…
- It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.
- Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)
- In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when…
- Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of…
- I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were…
- Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark,…
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- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
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