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Real Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't…
- People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that…
- Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.
- 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…
- There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the…
- People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images,…
- Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real.…
- She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that…
- I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was…
- You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
- Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his…
- 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…
- The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
- It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only…
- I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
- 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,…
- In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be…
- 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…
- Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that they can be beaten.
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