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" I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't. "
Neil Gaiman
Wish
You
Pass
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" I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out. "
Neil Gaiman
Good
Out
Who
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
Cause
American
Words
" I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. "
Neil Gaiman
Art
Think
Story
" Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. "
Neil Gaiman
Beauty
Writing
Today
" What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.' "
Neil Gaiman
Go
Amazing
Doctor
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
Know
Love
You
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
People
Ideas
Doing
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
Universe
Time
Short
" Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. "
Neil Gaiman
Make
Disease
First
" Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. "
Neil Gaiman
Inside
You
Someone
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
Flaws
Proud
My Own
" When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. "
Neil Gaiman
Proudest
Possession
Cause
" For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. "
Neil Gaiman
Long
Years
Glory
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
People
Love
Look
" As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. "
Neil Gaiman
Never
Daydream
Author
" In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. "
Neil Gaiman
Trust
Book
Contract
" We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. "
Neil Gaiman
Everything
Tell
Only
" 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
Some
You
Loved
" So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. "
Neil Gaiman
Phone
Ideas
Copy
" Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? "
Neil Gaiman
Eat
Why
Kind
" Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. "
Neil Gaiman
Nice
Get
Fans
" I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book. "
Neil Gaiman
Hope
Doing
Book
" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "
Neil Gaiman
Put
Want
Together
" As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them. "
Neil Gaiman
Walk
Work
Children
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
You
Easy
Good
" I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three. "
Neil Gaiman
Watching
Been
Doctor
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
Point
Always
Children
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
Fantasy
Think
Where
" 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
Questions
" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
Battle
Funny
Great