British - Author | November 10, 1960 -
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.
Neil Gaiman
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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
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With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
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It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
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Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
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You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.
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It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
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I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.
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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.
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