I think most things are pretty magical, and that it’s less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.
Neil Gaiman
Magic, Perception, Belief, Mindfulness, Wonder
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“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.” Neil Gaiman
Emotions, Magnitude, Perception, Feelings, Complexity
Neil Gaiman Emotions, Magnitude, Perception, Feelings, Complexity“Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.” Neil Gaiman
Creativity, Rebellion, Individuality, Impact, Inspiration
Neil Gaiman Creativity, Rebellion, Individuality, Impact, Inspiration“Jameson Irish whiskey: a twenty-dollar ticket out of this place.” Neil Gaiman
Alcohol, Escape, Coping Mechanism, Irish Whiskey, Price
Neil Gaiman Alcohol, Escape, Coping Mechanism, Irish Whiskey, Price“Words can be worrisome, people complex, motives and manners unclear; grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.” Neil Gaiman
Words, Complexity, Wisdom, Choices, Morality
Neil Gaiman Words, Complexity, Wisdom, Choices, Morality“The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished.” Neil Gaiman
Comics, Storytelling, Completion, Satisfaction, Creativity
Neil Gaiman Comics, Storytelling, Completion, Satisfaction, Creativity“Nobody will ever hurt her. She'll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.” Neil Gaiman
Resilience, Strength, Independence, Protection, Character Description
Neil Gaiman Resilience, Strength, Independence, Protection, Character Description“Really, he thought, if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?” Neil Gaiman
Trust, Poetry, Advice, Wisdom, Writers’ Insights
Neil Gaiman Trust, Poetry, Advice, Wisdom, Writers’ Insights“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.” Neil Gaiman
Reading, Obligation, Pleasure, Community, Imagination
Neil Gaiman Reading, Obligation, Pleasure, Community, Imagination“The process of writing can be magical – there are times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin air, and it’s absolute and utter happiness. Mostly, it’s a process of putting one word after another.” Neil Gaiman
Writing, Creativity, Magic, Happiness, Process
Neil Gaiman Writing, Creativity, Magic, Happiness, Process“After a while, it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it’s actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.” Neil Gaiman
Weather, Uncertainty, Metaphor, Perception, Confusion
Neil Gaiman Weather, Uncertainty, Metaphor, Perception, Confusion“In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists, and so forth, implicitly.” Neil Gaiman
Trust, Contracts, Publishing, Experience, Skepticism
Neil Gaiman Trust, Contracts, Publishing, Experience, Skepticism“I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.” Neil Gaiman
Reality, Perception, Fragility, Worldview, Darkreality
Neil Gaiman Reality, Perception, Fragility, Worldview, Darkreality“London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.” Neil Gaiman
Cities, Growth, Contradictions, Consequences, London
Neil Gaiman Cities, Growth, Contradictions, Consequences, London“We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.” Neil Gaiman
Knowledge, Awareness, Human Nature, Denial, Truth
Neil Gaiman Knowledge, Awareness, Human Nature, Denial, Truth“I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.” Neil Gaiman
Novelists, Writing, Perspective, Discovery, Creativity
Neil Gaiman Novelists, Writing, Perspective, Discovery, Creativity“Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.” Neil Gaiman
Loss, Life, Experience, Journey, Inevitability
Neil Gaiman Loss, Life, Experience, Journey, Inevitability“Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.” Neil Gaiman
Discontent, Improvement, Change, Activism, Progress
Neil Gaiman Discontent, Improvement, Change, Activism, Progress“It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.” Neil Gaiman
Writing, Social Dynamics, Observation, Personality, Introversion
Neil Gaiman Writing, Social Dynamics, Observation, Personality, Introversion