“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
— Neil Gaiman
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you're doing something.”
“That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.”
“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.”
“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
“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.”
“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!”
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”
“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.”
“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.”
“I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you’ve done something.”
“You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.”
“What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?”
“Libraries really are the gates to the future.”
“Let’s start a new tomorrow, today.”
“You have to finish things – that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
“Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.”
“Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”
“Libraries are our friends.”
“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.”
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.”
“And so there is magic.”
“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.”
“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
“One word after another. That’s the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it’s the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.”
“I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.”
“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”
“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 fooling a soul.”
“If you don’t know it’s impossible, it’s easier to do.”
“My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It’s quiet.”
“You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”
“Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”
“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.”
“Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.”
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