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Neil Gaiman on Writing

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“…fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

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“I think one of the great things about fiction is that it takes the chaos of life and feeds it back to one in a form that is emotionally satisfying.”
“The story is an explosion. And you get to the end of it, and once it's done, then you get to walk around it and you get to look at the shrapnel and the damage it did. And you get to see who died. And you get to see how it worked.”
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”
“You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're doing something.”
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