Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
Neil GaimanA 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 that way.
Neil GaimanSexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.
Neil GaimanAnd then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.
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