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Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.
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Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.
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I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.
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A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.
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If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.
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If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.
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I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.
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How old are you? asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked he would never have dared. As old as my tongue, said Hunter, primly, and a little older than my teeth.
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
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