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To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see the fish, and then it can walk, and then it's an ape and then it gets up on its hind legs and finally it is a man. i didn't like that. i didn't like the fact that there was something rather amphibious about me - at least in their heads - back when i was writing comics. so i like continuing to write comics, if only because it points out that i haven't just started to walk upright or left the water.
-Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see the fish, and then it can walk, and then it's an ape and then it gets up on its hind legs and finally it is a man. i didn't like that. i didn't like the fact that there was something rather amphibious about me - at least in their heads - back when i was writing comics. so i like continuing to write comics, if only because it points out that i haven't just started to walk upright or left the water.
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