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  • #1
    It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #2
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #3
    Lauren DeStefano
    “Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
    Lauren DeStefano, Wither

  • #4
    Neil Gaiman
    “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #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
    “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

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “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, M Is for Magic

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")”
    Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #19
    Neil Gaiman
    “Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')”
    Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “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, Make Good Art

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: life

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “Words save our lives, sometimes.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “Black as night, sweet as sin.”
    Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.”
    Neil Gaiman, InterWorld

  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #30
    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies



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