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Off Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- 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…
- When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art.…
- I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a…
- I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go…
- Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline…
- As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays,…
- So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and…
- When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you…
- On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and…
- Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the…
- Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.
- Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.
- You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.
- He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped…
- Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.
- I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set…
- Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to…
- I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I…
- The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and…
- For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
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