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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. "

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" I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing. "

Neil Gaiman

Say

Book

Point Of View

" I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. "

" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "

" A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. "

" Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. "

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

Neil Gaiman

People

Empathy

" This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. "

" 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 don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. "

" A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. "

" 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. "

" Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. "

Neil Gaiman

Science Fiction

Writing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write. "

" 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. "

" It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. "

" The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "