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I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.
– Neil Gaiman

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  1. Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
  2. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. – Neil Gaiman
  3. I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
  4. . . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. – Neil Gaiman
  5. We owe it to each other to tell stories. – Neil Gaiman
  6. You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. – Neil Gaiman
  7. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. – Neil Gaiman
  8. I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not. – Neil Gaiman
  9. He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again. – Neil Gaiman
  10. Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody. – Neil Gaiman
  11. Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside. – Neil Gaiman
  12. Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. – Neil Gaiman
  13. He is holding a book.Inside the book is the Universe. – Neil Gaiman
  14. I’m sorry, I say. I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
  15. 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
  16. Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
  17. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
  18. People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
  19. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  20. I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams
  21. Can’t say I’ve ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending. – Neil Gaiman
  22. Sexton: I think the whole world’s gone mad.Death: Uh-uh. It’s always like this. You probably just don’t get out enough. – Neil Gaiman
  23. Always good to remember when you’re making art. You don’t have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing. – Neil Gaiman
  24. As sure as water’s wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. – Neil Gaiman
  25. I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out. – Neil Gaiman
  26. Yes, you’re right. It’s part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü – Neil Gaiman
  27. Yes, you’re right. It’s part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you. – Neil Gaiman
  28. I have always felt,- he said, -œthat violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats – Neil Gaiman
  29. All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
  30. I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
  31. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. – Randy Pausch
  32. Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave. – Auliq Ice
  33. The dread had not left my soul. – Neil Gaiman
  34. There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire. – Neil Gaiman
  35. There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now. – Neil Gaiman
  36. Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths – Neil Gaiman
  37. I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything. – Neil Gaiman
  38. I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence. – Neil Gaiman
  39. But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way. – Neil Gaiman
  40. Sometimes you do things you regret, but there’s nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on. – Neil Gaiman

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