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You Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
- You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and…
- 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…
- You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people…
- 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…
- And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
- I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
- The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
- The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
- 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…
- You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like.…
- I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.
- A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science…
- Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the…
- I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of…
- I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been…
- I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what…
- I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be…
- I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the…
- In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about…
- My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer.…
- My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that…
- Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the…
- 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…
- 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…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — 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
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide