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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.
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I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.
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EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
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The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.
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Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.
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If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
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I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.
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Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
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Nobody's American, said Wednesday. Not originally. That's my point.
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Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.
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Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.
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There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.
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I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.
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Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.
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I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.
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It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
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There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.
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My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.
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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.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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