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" 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. "

Neil Gaiman

Simple

Complicated

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Neil Gaiman

Myself

Good

" Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, 'Boy, you're a really good walker around,' you know. It's not really hard. "

" I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. "

" I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. "

" The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. "

Neil Gaiman

Think

Story

" Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. "

" 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. "

" My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him. "

" I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do. "

" I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad. "

" 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. "

" We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. "

" Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. "

Neil Gaiman

People

Empathy

" Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? "

" I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write. "

" It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. "

" My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid. "

" I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. "

" You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. "

" I'm a fairly undisciplined writer. "

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Neil Gaiman

Get

Morning

" Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to. "

" Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. "

" 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. "

" I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer. "

" A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. "

" American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. "