First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power. Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. Neil Gaiman smellwonderfulbook I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go. Neil Gaiman growing-upgrowsdream You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business. Neil Gaiman funeraldirectorsthinking I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall. Neil Gaiman dreamcountrypast Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable. Neil Gaiman giving-upbaseballmean So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams. Neil Gaiman citiespersonalitydream All bookshelves are magical. Neil Gaiman bookshelves Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do. Neil Gaiman get-awayusemen Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking! Neil Gaiman pedestriansriskwatches It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard. Neil Gaiman couplesoulchildren When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it. Neil Gaiman wanttalking If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run. Neil Gaiman differencesregretrunning That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her. Neil Gaiman starsfallfirsts You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself. Neil Gaiman scarydreammean I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out. Neil Gaiman sandmanyeahwonder It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real. Neil Gaiman realstoriespeople One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one]. Neil Gaiman lastsdream There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness... Neil Gaiman woodsmadnesssteps I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work. Neil Gaiman proudwritingbook Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps. Neil Gaiman harderluckhelping
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