I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go. Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable. Neil Gaiman reading fun years I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other. Neil Gaiman theatre people thinking I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. Neil Gaiman fiction-writers science-fiction fiction Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island Neil Gaiman pain brother men In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety. Neil Gaiman trying reality people Whatever's happening," she said, eventually, "it can all be sorted out." She saw the expression on my face then, worried. Scared even. And she said, "After pancakes. Neil Gaiman pancakes expression faces Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives. Neil Gaiman eye book looks Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head. Neil Gaiman character children ideas I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author. Neil Gaiman werewolf grew-up remember I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes. Neil Gaiman eye race thinking I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. Neil Gaiman tweet events character I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other way of writing. I think the thing that keeps me with comics is there's still so much to be done. There's still this huge unplowed field, this huge unexplored wilderness, and as long as I can keep doing new things and coming up with new things, I will. Neil Gaiman writing long thinking In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot. Neil Gaiman awful imagination needs We save our lives in such unlikely ways. Neil Gaiman unlikely fragile-things way What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. Neil Gaiman shadow voice believe There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber. Neil Gaiman amber pockets littles You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will. Neil Gaiman mind men people Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author. Neil Gaiman overrated growing growing-up When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. Neil Gaiman insane reading hands I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so. Neil Gaiman arriving naked criticism
