Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
I’ve never read Proust.
Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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I’m going to confess I haven’t finished The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.
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View all 33 →Anything by Dostoevsky. I tried!
Fifty per cent of the books on my shelf, so much so that I gave them away.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
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View profile →A dog bounding through the grass on a summer’s day chasing a squirrel.
Those who create the doom.
Catching Covid. I don’t think any of us know what we’re messing with still to this day.
Being misrepresented by a Sun journalist 12 years ago.
Doomscrolling on my phone.
Last summer with my boyfriend Richie. We had no plans – it was just wonderful.
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