I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman I learned to write by writing. Neil Gaiman writing Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. Neil Gaiman voice people We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside. Neil Gaiman tired reading children Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different. Neil Gaiman otters writing giving I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution. Neil Gaiman triumph evil action Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams Neil Gaiman other-worlds mind dream The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe. Neil Gaiman butterfly wings europe You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else. Neil Gaiman eye evil mean Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk. Neil Gaiman blogs use If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. Neil Gaiman protection understanding dark I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something. Neil Gaiman mistake mean years I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time. Neil Gaiman should people thinking Libraries really are the gates to the future. Neil Gaiman gates library I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool. Neil Gaiman sight trying years The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore. Neil Gaiman choices creative adventure There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story. Neil Gaiman constructs rocks stories When things get tough... Make good art. Neil Gaiman when-things-get-tough tough art If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. Neil Gaiman easier knows impossible You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman. Neil Gaiman rewards hell heaven Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent. Neil Gaiman freedom-of-speech speech giving
