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Inside Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
- Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction…
- 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 watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and…
- Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and…
- However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw…
- A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good…
- Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all,…
- Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to…
- No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space…
- Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter…
- My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would…
- In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another…
- The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still…
- Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I…
- It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because…
- You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean,…
- Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just…
- Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
- How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the…
- Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.
- I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and…
- Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.
- Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and…
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- Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power… — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
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- We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman
- I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. — Dan Aykroyd
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- I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside. — Eric Bana
- All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little… — John Banville
- We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it… — Dave Barry