British - Author | November 10, 1960 -
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
Neil Gaiman
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As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
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Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.
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Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, 'Boy, you're a really good walker around,' you know. It's not really hard.
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We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
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The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
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I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
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Also, I've already won all the awards.
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American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
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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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