If you give a writer a pile of blank paper and say you can write anything you like on any subject you want at any length you want, you will probably never get anything at all, whereas if you have 900 words to write, and it's fiction that is somehow op-ed fiction, and it needs to tie in with Halloween . . . okay, those are my constraints, that's where I now need to start building something.
Neil GaimanA nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Neil GaimanIf you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.
Neil GaimanI remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.
Neil GaimanIt stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.
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