The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
There are too many books out there. So you want to make it easier on the people shelving them and on the people looking for them by limiting the places they’re going to go looking for books. You give them places not to look. That’s the simplicity of book shelving in bookstores. It tells you what not to read.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Make good art.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
With Hiding the Elephant Steinmeyer took the public on a journey through the history of theatrical magic. Art and Artifice
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Life does not obey genre rules. It lurches easily or uneasily from soap opera to farce, office romance to medical drama to police procedural or pornography, sometimes within minutes.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
The best of Poe doesn’t date.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
This was the introduction to Terry Pratchett’s non-fiction collection, A Slip of the Keyboard, 2014.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
. . . how it can mark a dead man’s thoughts for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.