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I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.
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I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.
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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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Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.
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Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?
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If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.
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On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.
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Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
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If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
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I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?
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The ties of blood, said Spider, are stronger than water. Water's not strong, objected Fat Charlie.
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When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.
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Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?
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