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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
- Awards
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, I've already won all the awards.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a very lazy author.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
- Freedom Of Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make good art.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 to the glory of it.
- Biggest Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020