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If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. Yo...

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I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and wr...

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And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist...

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If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is al...

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I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was ...

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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, ...

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In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. Th...

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And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no ...

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Shadow was a couple of a hundred yards away from his motel, and he walked there, breathing the cold ...

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As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving.I ...

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We knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who we we...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them...

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It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equip...

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The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain t...

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I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud

She tasted the day he lost his first job. She tasted the morning he had awakened, still drunk, in hi...

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Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's p...

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Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book

Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...

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Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her fre...

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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...

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Neil GaimanThe View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name fr...

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflake...

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But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing S...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to l...

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