Neil Gaiman

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#confluence #creative-process #ideas #writing #writing-process

...and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book and resume our lives. A life that is, like any other, unlike any other. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life #reader #unique #life

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#reading #sexy #smell #wonderful #love

Charitably...I think...sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #life #change

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

#inspirational

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life #writing #inspirational

The quickest way is sometimes the longest. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fantasy-fiction #fantasy-fiction

What about volcanoes" "What about them" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true." Between Adam and the them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#humor

I dont just randomly kill people.....I kill people when its funny ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#funny

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#art