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“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Inspirational #Graduation #Mistake
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“I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#School #Writing #Years
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“You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Dream #Mean #Alive
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“I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Dream #Character #Inspired
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#New Year #Mistake #Years
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“Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Speech #Patterns #Details
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“Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like - the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature - you'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Children #Book #Reading
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“The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Mirrors #Strange #Wonderful
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Graduation #Stupid #Mean
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“I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Remember #Werewolf #Grew
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“Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Moving #Perfection #Horizon
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“There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Art #What Matters #Culture
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“We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Writing #Way #Stories
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“We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Different #Way
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“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 #Book #Naked
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“There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Artist #Stories #Matching
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“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Inspirational #Reading #Book
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“I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Writing #Thinking #Race
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“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
#Running #Art #Husband
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“I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Writing #Thinking #Challenges
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“Libraries are our friends.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Book #Reading #Thought Provoking
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“I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Stuff #Bricks #Clay
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“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Fiction #Life Is #Stranger
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“My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Country #Thinking #Stuff
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“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Inspirational #Life #Mind
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“Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Mistake #Scared #Made
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“Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Virginia #People #Toasters
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“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 #Book #Believe
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“People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Kids #Thinking #Ideas
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“Let's start a new tomorrow, today.”
-- Neil Gaiman
#Today #Tomorrow
