Famous quotes by Authors

"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh, I see, this person doesn't like opportunities,' and stops giving them to you"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Quick. Name ten dead redheads"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Every single moment is a coincidence"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common"

Doug Coupland, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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!"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"I think of myself as a very lazy author"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"I started writing when I was about 20, 21, maybe"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"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"

Neil Gaiman, Author

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