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" I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. "
Neil Gaiman
Maybe
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" I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. "
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" The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. "
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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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" Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer. "
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" I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. "
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" My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops. "
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" The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books. "
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" Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. "
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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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" It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. "
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" I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. "
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" I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. "
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" I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. "
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