One of the many reasons I love Neil Gaiman.
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Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
I’m listening to Neil Gaiman read The Graveyard Book, and I have to say, he is an incredible storyteller. I can imagine how awesome it would be to have him be your dad, reading you stories before bedtime. Not that I want Neil Gaiman to be my dad. Well… maybe a little. ;)
| Neil Gaiman: | What I dreamed about in the same way that other kids dream about being astronauts or great footballers, was being a writer... Which, in my world, was this sort of wonderful perfect state in which you got to make up dreams and write them down. |
| Interviewer: | Is it what you expected? |
| Neil Gaiman: | There's an awful lot more shambling about in a bathrobe unshaven, and glaring out at the world and asking why there isn't any tea... and there's a lot more staring at blank pages and wishing they could just fill themselves. |
The world seems to work in predictable ways, and you think you see the pattern. But that’s fatal. Because it’s only a pattern until you meet the first event that doesn’t fit. And by then, all the tricks you’ve learned to deal with the world —well, they just don’t work anymore.
—Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to move on when the one you love walks away from you. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
—Neil Gaiman
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t to forget make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
—Neil Richard Gaiman
