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Neil Gaiman

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

— Address to the University of the Arts Class of 2012

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Our interpretation.

Gaiman says he learned to write simply by doing it. He followed whatever felt like an adventure and quit once it felt like work. By that rule, he says, life itself never felt like work.

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