fiction was an escape from the intolerable

3rd November 2016 | for Creatives | reading, books, Neil Gaiman, artists, value the art, Ana Knezevic, Croatian  |       

fiction was an escape from the intolerable

"I felt almost dishonorable accepting people's thanks. I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library; fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it."  (artist)

— Neil Gaiman (art by Ana Knezevic)

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