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" 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

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" I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. "

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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. "

" The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. "

Neil Gaiman

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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. "

" The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why. "

Neil Gaiman

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" Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. "

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