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Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.
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I really don't know what I love you means. I think it means Don't leave me here alone.
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Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.
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Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.
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Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.
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Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
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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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Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.
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Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith, said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. Loki, he said. Loki Lie-smith. You're slow, said Loki, but you get there in the end. And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.
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Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.
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When I was very young, I would occasionally stick 'f****' where I knew something contentious might happen so that the editor could remove the word 'f***' very proudly and leave whatever else was around it.
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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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Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
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That doesn't happen, she explained. Stars fall. They don't go back up again. You could be the first, he told her.
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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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The world is always ending, for someone.
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I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.
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Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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