From an Interview with Neil Gaiman
"When you're 11, walking home from school through this strange little
English landscape, running these weird, wonderful things through your
head ... well, now this is one of those 'I've never told anybody this
before' things," Gaiman says conspiratorially, "but here we go:
"My worst fantasy was a really cool one. I got to kidnap all of the
authors whose work I liked, living and dead -- I got to go 'round and
round up G.K. Chesterton and Geoffrey Chaucer and all of these guys.
Then I got to lock them in an enormous castle and make them collaborate
on these huge-plot books. And I would tell them what the plots were.
"I was about 10 years old. And I plotted this 12-volume giant epic about
these people going off to collect these rocks from all over the
universe.
"As daydreams go, it says an awful lot about me as a young man: I wasn't
confident enough about my ability to come up with stories. I was coming
up with this huge, intricate story in order to justify in my daydreams
of creating stories."
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/jobenvy/10/04/author.neil.gaiman/index.html
5 comments:
Hello Mike!
That was interesting! A really cool fantasy to have!
Have you read anything by Neil Gaiman?
I bet that would be you would it not Mike!
Itinérante: Nope! I do have a copy of "Good Omens", which he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett, but that's only because the book was dedicated to GKC. But I have never read anything of his.
Maria: Now why would you think that? lol.
Well if you could spend a day with Chesterton you would :)
Well,yeah, of course. lol. Indeed, I hope to spend all of eternity with the communion of saints. :-)
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