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" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
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" When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from. "
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" I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. "
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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. "
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" The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. "
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" The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. "
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" I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. "
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" I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream. "
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" 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. "
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" It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. "
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" As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. "
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Morning
" 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. "
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" Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. "
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" Also, I've already won all the awards. "
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" This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. "
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" Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. "
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" The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. "
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" 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. "
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" We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. "
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" 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. "
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" A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. "
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" I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. "
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" When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. "
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" I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. "
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" I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. "
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" 'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written. "
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