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
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.
I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.