Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde
Yeah, just imagine living in a society where people had no one to answer to for the way they live! Oh... Wait...
"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought." - Charles Spurgeon
I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so. - Neil Gaiman [Is there anyone alive more quotable than Neil Gaiman? I could do this all day.]
Please do. Spoiler: for the tightness I don't read fiction, I watch the movie versions and I first came across him in the 'making of 'docos of Starsdust. In it he recounts ( may have inaccuracies) how he was driving through the country and saw a large paddock with a fence, then imagined what lay beyond that fence, and he envisioned a realm different from the one on this side, and he said to himself, " I knew I had my next book right there and then." Have since watched some YT vids of him being interviewed. I do like the man, his imagination and attitude.
"You have the power to set yourself free of negative thought patterns and behaviors. You have the power to rise above the meaningless, petty distractions that can waste so much time and steal so much energy. You have the power to fill your moments, your life and your awareness with the things that have real and lasting meaning. You have the power to move forward no matter what setbacks or obstacles may block your path. You have the power to live true to your highest vision of how life can be. You have all this power because you have the choice. In each moment, you can choose, independent of all other factors, what to think, what to say, what to do and who to be. You have the choice, and the power, to truly and to fully live." - Ralph Marston
"The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel." Adam Carolla
You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something that you never finished. - Neil Gaiman
"Adam was but human, this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent." -- Mark Twain
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise." - Robert Fritz
I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing. - Jeff Bowen
"Painful experiences are stepping stones to right direction. Rather than considering them curses or crosses to bear, regard them as wake-up calls or course corrections. While you may have gone through a difficult ordeal you wish had never happened, the only thing worse may have been to go on as you were." - Alan Cohen
A great writer. If you know the famous comic The Sandman, Neil Gaiman is responsible for it, in terms of story. I highly recommend you to read it. He also wrote: Black Mirror, the most recent (I believe?) book The Good Omens, and so many more.
Oof, I agree that Neil Gaiman is great, but he never actually wrote for Black Mirror, and Good Omens is something that he cowrote with Terry Pratchett in 1990. American Gods is also appearing serialized on the small screen, but that one's from 2001. Apparently (and I've been watching for several weeks without knowing) the TV show Lucifer is also based on a Neil Gaiman character.