I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.
Neil GaimanI realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors in the world, a guy called Harry Stephen Keeler, a long dead American mystery writer. He was probably the greatest bad writer America ever produced.
Neil GaimanI think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.
Neil GaimanThere are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
Neil GaimanShe had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.
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