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I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.
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There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.
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I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.
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I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'
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People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.
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Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.
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Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
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It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.
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Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.
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I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.
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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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You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds. What, a phobia? Sort of. Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds. What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?
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America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.
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Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
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Let's start a new tomorrow, today.
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The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you? Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.
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