My kids, and getting some of the stories I had in my head on to paper in a way that wasn’t too far removed from the thing I dreamed about writing.
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Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
United Kingdom · b. 1960
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British writer whose work includes the comics series The Sandman and the novels American Gods, Coraline and Neverwhere. He began his career as a journalist and did not attend university.
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The only job I quit was, aged about 23, subediting a “men’s” magazine. My job was typing out readers’ pornographic fantasies. I started wishing people would reproduce by splitting down the middle.
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