“I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.” PeopleThinkingCharacterMightInterestingStrangeNormalVery Interesting Author:Colin Firth
“Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)” IfsMenAsksTaughtCheat Author:Karen Joy Fowler
“Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.” BodyJobsListsYour BodyPostsBad Jobs Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.” PeopleKnowsCoursesDork Author:Brendan Fraser
“I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place where I hope that the book knows what it's doing because right now I don't have a clue - I'm writing one scene after another like a man walking through a valley in thick fog, just able to see the path a little way ahead, but with no idea where it's actually going to lead him.” KnowsMenWayWritingLittlesBookIdeasAblePathWalkingRight NowSceneSixNo IdeaValleysThickChaptersClueFogGraveyard Author:Neil Gaiman
“I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.” IfsWorldLooksEyeForceClassDarknessTakenRedDepartmentPossessedFlashBlazingWorld ClassRed Eye Author:Neil Gaiman
“Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life....As a side note, running Windows Vista on the Panasonic w7 is making me really nostalgic for 1986. Whoever thought I'd get to type things then stare at a blank screen for a bit and one-by-one watch the letters appear? Cory and Mike's 'Why Don't You Run Linux?' talks are staring to seem much more sensible.” SeemsRunningBitsSidesWatchesTypeWindowLettersNotesDinnerScreensBarsStaringSensibleBlankDrsMikeEnthusiasticNostalgicLinuxVistasLove Of My LifeI Love My Life Author:Neil Gaiman
“As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.” ThinkingWritingWellsBookWishWrittenDiscoveryAccidentsVersusUp To YouHappy Accidents Author:Neil Gaiman
“[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.” NeedsMy TimeJarsReminding Author:Neil Gaiman
“When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)” HugeTenArticlesUsualFavouriteEncyclopediaEncyclopedia Britannica Author:Neil Gaiman