"I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect." ― Neil Gaiman Topic(s): Birthday More From Neil Gaiman "You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it." "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." "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." More In Birthday "I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique."― Celine Dion "One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday."― Bobby Sherman "Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"― John Heywood