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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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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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. ↗

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

— Neil Gaiman

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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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