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I don't believe in writer's block. I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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