Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read. Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. Neil Gaiman library red civilization Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story. Neil Gaiman sandman never-trust stories 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-kind important mistake Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Neil Gaiman notable scared fear And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet. Neil Gaiman done havens made The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules. Neil Gaiman nobody-knows crumbling graduation Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. Neil Gaiman magic-realism fantasy writing The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. Neil Gaiman shows people way 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 fighting play golf Libraries are our friends. Neil Gaiman thought-provoking reading book 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-away parent children 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 wise graduation needs 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 done artist views 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 numbers fiction thinking 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 baby people thinking When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel. Neil Gaiman lucifer angel remember Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole. Neil Gaiman arseholes perfectly-good teeth 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-gods stubbornness blind 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 details dream forever
