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" 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. "

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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. "

" I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. "

" I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "