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Neil Gaiman


British
November 10, 1960
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Also, I've already won all the awards.


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


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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.


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


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


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Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
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Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.


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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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.


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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.'
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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.
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
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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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When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.
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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.
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