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Neil Gaiman Quotes

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.""Everybody has a secret world inside of them.""Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.""Sometimes you have to be a little bit wicked because it lets the light in.""Mirrors are for misery, nothing more. They record decay.""Life’s about the journey, not the destination, darling.""There are moments when reality exceeds my wildest dreams. Usually, it is followed by extreme regret.""This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.""Because, if one is writing novels today, fieldwork is more and more a lost art. Take all the time you need, sit down with people, and dig deep. Galaxies may be infinitesimal, but no detail is too small.""Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.""I hope you have a really good day today. I hope the sky is clear and blue, without a cloud in sight. I hope the flamingos turn up in your garden.""Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.""Do not avenge yourself. Avoid your enemies if you can. Don’t seek victory over them. If fate brings you to them, well and good. If not, leave them to swing on their own ropes.""The world is always ending, for someone.""Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.""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 build and play and dance and live as only you can.""Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.""I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.""A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.""Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
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