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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.
Written by Neil Gaiman
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
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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.
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
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Also, I've already won all the awards.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.
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I think of myself as a very lazy author.
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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.
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
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I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
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I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
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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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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.
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Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
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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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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.
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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.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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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.
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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 lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Written by Neil Gaiman

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