And sometimes when you fall... you fly... Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. Neil Gaiman libraryredcivilization Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story. Neil Gaiman sandmannever-truststories 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 them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong. Neil Gaiman be-kindimportantmistake Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Neil Gaiman notablescaredfear And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet. Neil Gaiman donehavensmade The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules. Neil Gaiman nobody-knowscrumblinggraduation Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. Neil Gaiman magic-realismfantasywriting The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. Neil Gaiman showspeopleway 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 and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop. Neil Gaiman fightingplaygolf Libraries are our friends. Neil Gaiman thought-provokingreadingbook If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. Neil Gaiman going-awayparentchildren Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would. Neil Gaiman wisegraduationneeds There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it. Neil Gaiman doneartistviews 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 story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think. Neil Gaiman numbersfictionthinking In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that. Neil Gaiman babypeoplethinking When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel. Neil Gaiman luciferangelremember Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole. Neil Gaiman arseholesperfectly-goodteeth Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life. Neil Gaiman stones There's none so blind as those who will not listen. Neil Gaiman american-godsstubbornnessblind It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head. Neil Gaiman detailsdreamforever
