Today is the birthday
of Neil Gaiman (1960 - ) who said all of these awesome things:
“Have you ever been
in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and
it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess
you up.”
and
“I've been making a
list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to
love somebody. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't
love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone
else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They
don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
and
“May your coming year
be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine
books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make
some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope,
somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
and
“What I say is, a
town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless
it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.”
and
“Being a writer is a
very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or
a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
and
“I hope you will have
a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll
make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and
that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in
return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness
and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be
wise, and that you will always be kind.”
and
“[D]on't ever
apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from
a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to
this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or
borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books
and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by
someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important
thing is that people read... ”
and
“This is how you do
it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its
done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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