Neil Gaiman quotes - page 7

My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid. (Neil Gaiman)
My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops. View quote
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I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing. View quote
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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. View quote
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You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer. View quote
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I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. View quote
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I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream. View quote
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I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.' View quote
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I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer. View quote
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I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad. View quote
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It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important. (Neil Gaiman)
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books. View quote
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Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. View quote
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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. View quote
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Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. View quote
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The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. View quote
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Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. View quote
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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. View quote
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I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them. View quote
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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. View quote
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You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. (Neil Gaiman)
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography. View quote
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'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. View quote
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With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children. View quote
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A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. View quote
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