Neil Gaiman

(4 votes)   Strategy number one is that I always, or almost always, have at least two or three different things that I'm writing at any one time.

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(3 votes)   There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

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(3 votes)   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.

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(9 votes)   I think of myself as a very lazy author.

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(8 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

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(6 votes)   And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

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(6 votes)   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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(6 votes)   I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

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(6 votes)   I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

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(5 votes)   So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

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