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Need Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- 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 that…
- When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will…
- Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
- I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes…
- Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes…
- Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need…
- What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?
- My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''…
- Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and…
- I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it,…
- What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now…
- Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
- Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's…
- I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s…
- The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.
- 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…
- Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to…
- You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance),…
- I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the…
- Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you…
- If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
- A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things…
- She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for…
- I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad,…
- 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…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson