"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."
-Neil Gaiman
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"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.“
-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."
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"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."
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"I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction."
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"I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect."
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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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