Neil Gaiman on Time
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Neil Gaiman, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Neil Gaiman, entry #54784: "We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world."
Attributed to Neil Gaiman, entry #167227: "Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
9 Quotes by Neil Gaiman on Time
"We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"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."
"Have a nice doomsday."
"And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago."
"Kate Bush makes a record, and you don't hear from her. And you play the stuff she has made, and one day you are surprised, and she brings out something else, and she's been quietly working away on it, for however long she wanted to work on it, and I love that. I love the willingness to be quiet, until its time to speak — which is something that she does over and over."
"Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open."
"I wondered where the illusion of the second moon had come from, but I only wondered for a moment, and then I dismissed it from my thoughts. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk."
"We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different."