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Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas. (Neil Gaiman)
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones. View quote
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The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why. View quote
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I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much. View quote
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When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. View quote
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things. View quote
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One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up. View quote
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When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. View quote
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It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. View quote
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For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. View quote
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Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. (Neil Gaiman)
When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared. View quote
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It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. View quote
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe. View quote
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Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end. View quote
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But where does contagion end and art begin? View quote
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Google can bring you back, you know, a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. View quote
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"Just go with it. It won't hurt.” I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much. View quote
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We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. View quote
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Let's start a new tomorrow, today. View quote
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It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. (Neil Gaiman)
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating. View quote
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Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead. View quote
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She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars. View quote
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen. View quote
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