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" Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. "
Neil Gaiman
Stranger
Always
Because
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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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" As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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Know
Book
" Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. "
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Fans
" What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.' "
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" Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. "
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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. "
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Great
" 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. "
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Young
Reading
" 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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Get
Morning
" I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. "
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" With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children. "
Neil Gaiman
Chance
Hope
Giving
" I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. "
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Always
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Time
" 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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" 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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" 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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" I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. "
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" And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. "
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Trouble
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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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World
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" So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. "
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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. "
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Short
" 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. "
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Mythology
" Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. "
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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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