#me

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ashes #be true #dust #endure #facts

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#i #last #look #lost #once

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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#american #cause #each #every #gods

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#chemical #dogs #eat #hot #hot dogs

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

#bad thing #comfortable #corner #else #everybody

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

#awards #battle #between #big #doomed

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

#does #flaws #get #highest #i

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

#comedy #did #feel #finish #happier

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

#amendment rights #book #comic #comic book #comics