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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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I think of myself as a very lazy author.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 10th, 1960

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