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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)
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. View quote
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Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. View quote
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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. View quote
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I'm not sure it's entirely a good thing... I've always loved the gutter. (Neil Gaiman)
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see. View quote
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It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining. View quote
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My grandpa sells condoms to sailors, He punctures the tips with a pin, My grandma does back-street abortions, My god how the money rolls in. View quote
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If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand? View quote
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Bod walked back into the graveyard and up the hill, until he reached the Frobisher mausoleum. He did not enter it. He climbed up the side of the building, using the thick ivy root as a foothold, and he pulled himself up onto the stone roof, where he sat and thought looking out at the world of moving things beyond the graveyard, and he remembered the way Scarlett had held him and how safe he felt, if only for a moment, and how fine it would be to walk safely in the lands beyond the graveyard, and how good it was to be master of his own small world. View quote
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Hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go. View quote
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. View quote
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I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means don't leave me here alone... View quote
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What's your name," Coraline asked the cat. "Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?" "Cats don't have names," it said. "No?" said Coraline. "No," said the cat. "Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names. View quote
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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. (Neil Gaiman)
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. View quote
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. View quote
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Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. View quote
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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. View quote
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