In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract… — Neil Gaiman

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Neil GaimanAuthor · British · b. 1960

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