I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work.
Neil GaimanNothingโs changed. Youโll go home. Youโll be bored. Youโll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. Youโre too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They donโt even get your name right.
Neil GaimanYou made peace,โ said the buffalo man. โYou took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were hereโand the people who worshiped them were hereโbecause it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.
Neil GaimanFor love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
Neil GaimanAs a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.
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