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Word Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
- 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…
- The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.
- One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes…
- You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely…
- I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my…
- How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."…
- This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy,…
- I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what…
- Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from…
- Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to…
- Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now…
- I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re…
- There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English.…
More Word Quotes
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach