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. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
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. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
Going off the grid is always good for me. It’s the way that I’ve started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t to make it all bearable. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
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. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
Doctor Who’ was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
American Gods’ was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there’s definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
When you’re starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that’s gone before and the stuff that’s influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that’s where you start from. Neil Gaiman Read Quote
