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" The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. "

" 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. "

" It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. "

" 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. "

" I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them. "

" I think of myself as a very lazy author. "

" The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished. "

" The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. "

" It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important. "

" What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.' "

" We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. "

" Also, I've already won all the awards. "

" A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. "

" '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. "

" The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. "

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

" 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. "