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" You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm a fairly undisciplined writer. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. "