Neil's book, The Graveyard Book (published in 2008), won the Newberry Medal, given by the Association for Library Service to Children; it also won the Hugo in 2009 for Best Novel, and the Locus Award for best Young Adult Novel. In 2010, the book won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the oldest and most respected award for children's writing in the U.K.
(In a 1999 interview with Sfsite.com)Neil Gaiman: I was just dumbfounded by this wonderful First Amendment thing and how absolutely great it was. You see, I was coming from a country where that doesn't exist.
(in a note at the end of his graphic novel, The Wake)Neil Gaiman: My electronic address book contains the names of a number of people who have died . . .all it would take would be a press of the delete key to remove them. But that would be too final a goodbye, so they remain undeleted.
(on his fame in Canada from appearing on Prisoners of Gravity)Neil Gaiman: Toronto is one of the few places in the world where I have face recognition. They actually know what I look like.