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
Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
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.