You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter. Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. Neil Gaiman dream inspiring memories The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes. Neil Gaiman real sometimes world I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Neil Gaiman ocean believe book There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now. Neil Gaiman men boys fall None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The world that's important is the world behind each of our eyes, which is something that none of the rest of us can access. Neil Gaiman important eye world Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead. Neil Gaiman voice song people Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving. Neil Gaiman perfection writing moving When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob? Neil Gaiman confused stars art Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. Neil Gaiman different people world Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. Neil Gaiman life-and-love pain path That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed. Neil Gaiman dream lost inspiring You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually. Neil Gaiman identity long people Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you. Neil Gaiman eye morning love You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. Neil Gaiman safe heart sometimes We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. Neil Gaiman rights stories writing It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best. Neil Gaiman assuming work-out trouble When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art. Neil Gaiman husband running art Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. Neil Gaiman boredom sleep giving Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. Neil Gaiman most-romantic lovers heart Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. Neil Gaiman women naked book
