Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk โ the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?
Neil GaimanWell-meaning adults can easily destroy a childโs love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian โimprovingโ literature. Youโll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.
Neil GaimanStories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
Neil Gaiman