Neil Gaiman, The View From The Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction Quotes
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.
No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.
It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my head
We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.
Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.
You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.
Books are really places, make no mistake about that.