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This reads as a call to trust individuality rather than imitate what already exists. It points to the value of a personal voice, and suggests that making anything worthwhile begins with accepting one's own perspective. It lands when someone feels pressure to copy others, but needs permission to make work that sounds and looks like themselves.
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About Neil Gaiman
English author, contemporary
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre, and screenplays. He is known for works that move easily between page and screen, including The Sandman and novels such as Good Omens, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. His career spans comics, fiction, and adaptation work. Several of his stories were brought to the screen, including Coraline and American Gods, and he co-created the television versions of Good Omens and The Sandman. His writing ranges across fantasy, myth, and modern storytelling in different forms.
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Individuality: more sayings
- “Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”Edward Abbey
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- “A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of…”Lame Deer
More Identity quotes
- “Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressm…”Ellen Raskin
- “Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra…”Shon Mehta
- “I put my identity in what Christ says, who He thinks I am and who I know that He says I am.”Trevor Lawrence
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Books by Neil Gaiman
Coraline
2008
American Gods
2017
Stardust
2007
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
2020
Neverwhere
2016