Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would. Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience. Neil Gaiman bitter-experiencebitterreason Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. Neil Gaiman one-wordright-words If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future. Neil Gaiman libraryvoicepast Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. Neil Gaiman next-yearwritingyears I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. Neil Gaiman startingpageswriting And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. Neil Gaiman raw-materialslife-iswatches All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new. Neil Gaiman taskswritingfiction Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human? Neil Gaiman star-gazingstarduststars People tend to find books when they are ready for them. Neil Gaiman readybookpeople It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. Neil Gaiman connectionsimportantfiction My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet. Neil Gaiman keyboardsdarknesspeople Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing. Neil Gaiman londonhealthycities Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions') Neil Gaiman hopedreamheart We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored. Neil Gaiman tiredkidsmoving Books were safer than other people anyway. Neil Gaiman bookpeople I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all. Neil Gaiman empty-placessometimesart Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody. Neil Gaiman complicatedpeoplelooks Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans. Neil Gaiman oceanpeopleyears Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. Neil Gaiman toughwayart Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good. Neil Gaiman childhoodtoysmemories
