Neil Gaiman

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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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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