neil-gaiman:

amandapalmer:

it’s funny to be able to tweet this, because it sounds so epic, but: neil gaiman is writing sandman.

s’true

Amanda just came in, looked at the computer screen, then sat down and took a photo of me working. It’s funny: the stage fright is fading, as I start to take joy in these characters once again…

Books and Bars: now rebloggable 

neil-gaiman:

Hello! I am 22 and a complete introvert. I have always found solace and companionship in books, something which I have never regretted. However, I am struggling with pressure to live differently. Being in my early 20’s, I am constantly told by my friends to go to more bars more nights of the week - I am told that this is a more appropriate way to spend my time than reading every night (the phrase “not really living” has been said multiple times). What is your take on this opinion?

 bookconservator

I think you and any bookloving friends you know or can find on line should mount a small but irritating campaign to stop people going to bars in the evening as a waste of time, and try and use the phrase “Well, it’s not really reading…” whenever possible.

neil-gaiman | iwouldslayadragonforyou:

Doctor Who episode line-up for 2013 (Look who’s writing Ep. 12).

It is true.

Right now, TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kindle edition of AMERICAN GODS CHEAP 

neil-gaiman:

Right now, Amazon.com has put the Tenth Anniversary Edition of AMERICAN GODS up for $2.99 for a limited time.

I am posting this for people who have Kindles, are in the US, and might want to get this. 

I am not posting this for people to tell me that they hate Kindles, hate all e-books, or are grumpy because they do not live in a country where they can download this. (I only mention this because otherwise people do.)

Reason to love Neil Gaiman #1313 

neil-gaiman | kambriel:

I’m pretty sure he just commissioned me to make him something that is “darker than black.”

I did.

"I didn’t touch her. She was my dream; and if you touch a dream it vanishes, like a soap bubble."

 

"‘You’re playing with fire,’ she warned him.
‘That’s how I know I’m alive.’"

 

"She began to whisper something in my ear. It’s the strangest thing about poetry - you can tell it’s poetry, even if you don’t speak the language. You can hear Homer’s Greek without understanding a word, and you still know it’s poetry. I’ve heard Polish poetry and Inuit poetry, and I knew what it was without knowing. Her whisper was like that. I didn’t know the language, but her words washed through me, perfect, and in my mind’s eye I saw towers of glass and diamond; and people with eyes of the palest green; and, unstoppable, beneath every syllable, I could feel the relentless advance of the ocean."

 

"I like things to be story-shaped.
Reality, however, is not story-shaped, and the eruptions of the odd into our lives are not story-shaped either. They do not end in entirely satisfactory ways. Recounting the strange is like telling one’s dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can color one’s entire day."

 

"There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts."