Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 November 1960
CityPortchester, England
If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.
Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.
You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.
I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.
The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.
Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.
I learned to write by writing.
And so there is magic.
I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.
I think of myself as a very lazy author.
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.