When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art. by Neil Gaiman

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

Neil Gaiman

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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.

arriving naked criticism

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.

smell wonderful book

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams g... by Neil Gaiman

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

growing-up grows dream

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.

funeral directors thinking

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.

dream country past

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.

giving-up baseball mean

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe... by Neil Gaiman

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

cities personality dream

All bookshelves are magical. by Neil Gaiman

All bookshelves are magical.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known... by Neil Gaiman

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

get-away use men

Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the... by Neil Gaiman

Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

pedestrians risk watches

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

couple soul children

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about... by Neil Gaiman

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

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.

differences regret running

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

stars fall firsts

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.

scary dream mean

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.

sandman yeah wonder

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.

real stories people

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one]. by Neil Gaiman

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

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...

woods madness steps

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.

proud writing book