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
Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.
We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.
It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.
My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.
Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.
It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.
The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.
We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.
Everything that is,casts a shadow
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.