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Novel Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.
- One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes…
- You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely…
- 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…
- I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
- I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
- The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all…
- A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good…
- He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the…
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