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I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)
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I have no plans to love you, said Coraline. No matter what. You can't make me love you.
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