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Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman QUOTES

1 " He takes the view that mornings happen to other people. I think I once saw him at breakfast, although possibly it was just someone who looked a bit like him who was lying with their head in the plate of baked beans. He likes good sushi, and quite likes people, too, although not raw; he is kind to fans who are not total jerks, and enjoys talking to people who know how to talk. He doesn't look as though he's forty; that may have happened to someone else, too. Or perhaps there's special picture locked in his attic. "

― , Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

2 " ...hey, let me tell you about the weirdness, like when he was staying with us for the editing, and we heard a noise and went into his room and two of our white doves had got in and couldn't get out; they were panicking around the room and Neil was waking up in a storm of snowy white feathers saying, "Wstfgl?" which is his normal ante meridian vocabulary. "

― , Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

3 " Gaiman wrote the first draft in fountain pen, in several five-hundred-page, leather-bound sketchbooks that he purchased in a close-out sale. "I really wanted a second draft," says the author. "It's my experience with computers that they do not give you a second draft. Computers give you an ongoing, ever-improving first draft. "

― , Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

4 " When asked about his "open relationship" with fans:
Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers. "

― , Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman