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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

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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