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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 46

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My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

Forgiving

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I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

Cutting, Reality, Novel

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I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have two million Twitter followers I can engage with. It's great, but I also think it's important to be able to let your thoughts flow and percolate.

Thinking, Bored, Important

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There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going to stay with the characters long enough to live your life with them. And you have different kinds of relationships with them.

Character, Long, Live Your Life

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There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist as purely literary constructs. You know, the young man in "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" - I probably got that right - is a literary construct, and enjoys being a literary construct. He has no life off stage, whereas the young men in "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" were as near to being real human beings as I could possibly get them.

Girl, Real, Party

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I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

Ideas, Building Things, Things I Love

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

Dream, Character, Inspired

"Ask the Author Live:Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that I do strongly believe. And in that sense American Gods is a very personal novel and a political novel. I was trying to describe the experience of coming to America as an immigrant, the experience of watching the way that America tends to eat other cultures.

Believe, Political, Trying

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If you give a writer a pile of blank paper and say you can write anything you like on any subject you want at any length you want, you will probably never get anything at all, whereas if you have 900 words to write, and it's fiction that is somehow op-ed fiction, and it needs to tie in with Halloween . . . okay, those are my constraints, that's where I now need to start building something.

Halloween, Writing, Giving

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Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

Writing

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I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and Petronius - whereas with comics, they've only been doing them for a hundred years, and there's stuff that nobody's done before. I think I'll go off and do some of the stuff no one's ever done before.

Book, Writing, Thinking

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I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.

Editing, Editors, Guy

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer. The hope that elves will come in the night and finish it for you, is a very common one to have. That is my main recommendation - you have to write, and you have to finish what you write and beyond that, it's all detail.

Writing, Night, Pitfalls

"Neil Gaiman's acclaimed comic book 'Sandman' returns after 25 years". Interview with Henry Hanks, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

Couple, Book, Writing

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

Mind, Different, Way

"Neil Gaiman Brings A Multimedia Extravaganza To Carnegie Hall". kunr.org. June 25, 2014.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

Kids, Thinking, Ideas

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

Order, Kind, Creator

Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand people out there who have copies of things that I've written and they really want signed and they're not going to get them signed.

People, Want, Guilty

"Neil Gaiman On ‘American Gods’ Adaptation, ‘Good Omens’ TV Series & Comic-Con Conflicts". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 22, 2016.

Coming over from England, I was awe-struck by what Americans do at Halloween. I find it magnificent. In England, you get the occasional fancy dress party.

Halloween, Party, Magnificent

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In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.

Artist, Collaboration, Comic

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I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

Writing, Scripts, Diagrams

"Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

The comic convention itself tends to come second to the giant announcements in Hall H and the movies and the TV. So I think it's always good to remind people that there is a wonderful comic convention going on.

Thinking, People, Giants

"Neil Gaiman On ‘American Gods’ Adaptation, ‘Good Omens’ TV Series & Comic-Con Conflicts". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 22, 2016.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

Book, Ready, Ifs

"Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.

Reading, Writing, Drawing

Source: www.npr.org

When I was very young, I would occasionally stick 'f****' where I knew something contentious might happen so that the editor could remove the word 'f***' very proudly and leave whatever else was around it.

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