You were her way here, and it’s a dangerous thing to be a door.
Neil Gaiman
Metaphor, Journey, Danger, Identity, Connection
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More Neil Gaiman Quotes
“I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won’t tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.” Neil Gaiman
Uncertainty, Metaphor, Complexity, Life, Confusion
Neil Gaiman Uncertainty, Metaphor, Complexity, Life, Confusion“I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something’s in the world that wasn’t there before.” Neil Gaiman
Creation, Passion, Building, Imagination, Innovation
Neil Gaiman Creation, Passion, Building, Imagination, Innovation“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
Fiction, Creativity, Imagination, Storytelling, Writing
Neil Gaiman Fiction, Creativity, Imagination, Storytelling, Writing“I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.” Neil Gaiman
Sex, Pleasure, Experience, Opinion, Humor
Neil Gaiman Sex, Pleasure, Experience, Opinion, Humor“If you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.” Neil Gaiman
Activism, Courage, Principles, Defense, Integrity
Neil Gaiman Activism, Courage, Principles, Defense, Integrity“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.” Neil Gaiman
Empathy, Connection, Society, Understanding, Relationships
Neil Gaiman Empathy, Connection, Society, Understanding, Relationships“The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.” Neil Gaiman
Uncertainty, Future, Unpredictability, Change, Life
Neil Gaiman Uncertainty, Future, Unpredictability, Change, Life“The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.” Neil Gaiman
Desire, Satisfaction, Change, Perspective, Irony
Neil Gaiman Desire, Satisfaction, Change, Perspective, Irony“Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.” Neil Gaiman
Childhood, Belief, Perspective, Imagination, Satisfaction
Neil Gaiman Childhood, Belief, Perspective, Imagination, Satisfaction“I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.” Neil Gaiman
Comedy, Horror, Needs, Storytelling, Themes
Neil Gaiman Comedy, Horror, Needs, Storytelling, Themes“If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.” Neil Gaiman
History, Lessons, Pessimism, Change, Awareness
Neil Gaiman History, Lessons, Pessimism, Change, Awareness“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.” Neil Gaiman
Communication, Silence, Societal Critique, Frustration, Personal Reflection
Neil Gaiman Communication, Silence, Societal Critique, Frustration, Personal Reflection“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“You shouldn’t trust the storyteller; only trust the story.” Neil Gaiman
Storytelling, Trust, Narrative, Interpretation, Skepticism
Neil Gaiman Storytelling, Trust, Narrative, Interpretation, Skepticism“I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.” Neil Gaiman
Environment, Responsibility, Hobbies, Sustainability, Carbon Footprint
Neil Gaiman Environment, Responsibility, Hobbies, Sustainability, Carbon Footprint“Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.” Neil Gaiman
Love, Vulnerability, Emotions, Strength, Relationships
Neil Gaiman Love, Vulnerability, Emotions, Strength, Relationships“Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while.” Neil Gaiman
Love, Happiness, Time, Mortality, Fairy Tales
Neil Gaiman Love, Happiness, Time, Mortality, Fairy Tales