Neil Gaiman on your coming year

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

—	Neil Gaiman I like this guy

Neil Gaiman on books, life & death

“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman on Piracy & Copyrights

I wonder if this is universally true or just the truth for an established writer.
I love posting my stuff & getting feedback & I realise it's a great way of advertising but I'm still afraid of posting long excerpts.

I don't steal other people's writings when I see & love them online so it stands to reason that I'm being paranoid.

Interesting...