I like Neil Gaiman; he thinks like me

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"You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing." - Gene Wolfe to Neil Gaiman, August 2000

"I kept naming my protagonist: There's a magic to names, after all. I knew his name was descriptive. I tried calling him Lazy, but he didn't seem to like that, and I called him Jack and he didn't like that any better. I took to trying every name I ran into on him for size, and he looked back at me from somewhere in my head unimpressed every time. It was like trying to name Rumpelstiltskin." - Neil Gaiman, February 2001, on writing American Gods

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"I make them up. Out of my head." - Neil Gaiman, on where he gets his story ideas

http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/essays/essaysbyneil/ideasessay