Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.
Neil Gaiman
Storytelling, Interconnectedness, Life, Narrative Structure, Metaphor
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“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!” Neil Gaiman
Gifts, Books, Imagination, Affordability, Sharing Worlds
Neil Gaiman Gifts, Books, Imagination, Affordability, Sharing Worlds“Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.” Neil Gaiman
Communication, Wisdom, Discretion, Language, Understanding
Neil Gaiman Communication, Wisdom, Discretion, Language, Understanding“That’s sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they’re a girl.” Neil Gaiman
Sexism, Stereotypes, Gifts, Gender Roles, Equality
Neil Gaiman Sexism, Stereotypes, Gifts, Gender Roles, Equality“I love stories where women save themselves.” Neil Gaiman
Women, Empowerment, Storytelling, Self Reliance, Feminism
Neil Gaiman Women, Empowerment, Storytelling, Self Reliance, Feminism“Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.” Neil Gaiman
Money, Experience, Value, Life Lessons, Regret
Neil Gaiman Money, Experience, Value, Life Lessons, Regret“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.” Neil Gaiman
Witchcraft, Gender, Stereotypes, Cultural Critique, Empowerment
Neil Gaiman Witchcraft, Gender, Stereotypes, Cultural Critique, Empowerment“I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it.” Neil Gaiman
Time, Reflection, Realization, Humor, Awareness
Neil Gaiman Time, Reflection, Realization, Humor, Awareness“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.” Neil Gaiman
Fiction, Empathy, Storytelling, Personal Perspective, Truth-telling
Neil Gaiman Fiction, Empathy, Storytelling, Personal Perspective, Truth-telling“A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people’s heads. Books are good that way.” Neil Gaiman
Novel, Writing, Storytelling, Creativity, Communication
Neil Gaiman Novel, Writing, Storytelling, Creativity, Communication“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“I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.” Neil Gaiman
Short Story, Writing, Storytelling, Underrated, Literary Form
Neil Gaiman Short Story, Writing, Storytelling, Underrated, Literary Form“Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You’ve Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.” Neil Gaiman
Personification, Chaos, Humor, Narrative, Storytelling
Neil Gaiman Personification, Chaos, Humor, Narrative, Storytelling“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick – a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.” Neil Gaiman
Short Story, Magic, Emotion, Brevity, Storytelling
Neil Gaiman Short Story, Magic, Emotion, Brevity, Storytelling“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
Connection, Fiction, Importance, Life, Salvation
Neil Gaiman Connection, Fiction, Importance, Life, Salvation“If it’s true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.” Neil Gaiman
Change, Life, Identity, Forgiveness, Mortality
Neil Gaiman Change, Life, Identity, Forgiveness, Mortality“I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel.” Neil Gaiman
Envy, Imagination, Adventure, Mundane Life, Fantasy
Neil Gaiman Envy, Imagination, Adventure, Mundane Life, Fantasy“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the scavengers took my heart. How it felt as the hunger birds, all mouth, tore into my chest and snatched out my heart, still pumping, and devoured it to get at what was hidden inside it. I know how that feels, as if it was truly a part of my life, of my death. And then the memory snips and rips, neatly, and -.” Neil Gaiman
Memory, Emotion, Loss, Reflection, Experience
Neil Gaiman Memory, Emotion, Loss, Reflection, Experience