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" 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. "

Neil Gaiman

Lay

Young

Reading

" Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. "

" When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. "

" 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. "

" And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. "

" As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. "

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

Neil Gaiman

People

Empathy

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. "

" I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. "

" Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. "

Neil Gaiman

Myself

Good

" I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. "

" '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. "

Neil Gaiman

Books

Kind

" I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.' "

Neil Gaiman

Writing

Dinosaur

" 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. "

" Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. "

" 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. "

" The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three. "

" Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. "