Neil Gaiman

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#humor #humor

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane #myth

So many things to see, people to do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #humor

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#short #dreams

This isn't about what is . . . it's about what people think is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#americans

...set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#challenge

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#funny

Because 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

#inspirational #freedom

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#humor

The only water in the forest is the River. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#the-doctor-s-wife #wife