Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths. Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human. Neil Gaiman humans stories Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. Neil Gaiman writing people thinking Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing. Neil Gaiman waiting writing firsts I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses. Neil Gaiman opiates storm world Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare. Neil Gaiman scared brave would-be People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them. Neil Gaiman running-away running people We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest. Neil Gaiman writing men children In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing. Neil Gaiman breathing lying people As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish. Neil Gaiman fiction-novels successful talking The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads. Neil Gaiman reading writing moving You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary. Neil Gaiman imaginary care brave This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top Neil Gaiman body flesh home It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment. Neil Gaiman late appreciate too-late It felt like a small forever. Neil Gaiman felt forever My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely. Neil Gaiman writing book reality Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence. Neil Gaiman talking country people Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined? Neil Gaiman dream doe world "Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and dreams and America because I knew about them. And I wrote about what it's like to wander into Faerie because I knew about that. I wrote about living underneath London because I knew about that too. And I put people into the stories because I knew them: the ones with pumpkins for heads, and the serial killers with eyes for teeth, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream and the rest of them. Neil Gaiman eye dream writing I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car. Neil Gaiman car writing song China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me. Neil Gaiman optimistic children america
