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
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
Also, I've already won all the awards.
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
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 was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.
You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark time, who has stolen from every thing there ever was all the things that it held precious and divine... And left nothing but ashes and memories and the grave.