Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.
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- I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. β¨ Neil Gaiman: Literary Rock Star and Me. Interview With Jeffrey Berman, www.huffingtonpost.com. A β¦ βΆ
- Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. β¨ Neil Gaiman (2008). β¦ βΆ
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