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Story 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.
- The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish…
- Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man…
- THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never…
- There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the…
- Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
- The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all…
- The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and…
- I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
- Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length…
- The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add…
- Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power…
- Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are…
- One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by…
- Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes…
- A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.…
- Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a…
- A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
- There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff,…
- Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn.…
- The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may…
- The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire…
- Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.
- We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it…
- This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a…
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