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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #2
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #3
    Rachel Joyce
    “The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.”
    Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

  • #4
    Rachel Joyce
    “People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.”
    Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
    Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
    The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
    "Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
    "Fuck you," said the raven.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “Libraries are our friends.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

    Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #19
    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “Hold fast," he called. "Tell me your names, and your stations."
    "I am the Lady Door," said Door. "I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch."
    "I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard."
    "Richard Mayhew," said Richard. "Wet.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
    tags: humor

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: cats

  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #29
    Neil Gaiman
    “There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #30
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges



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