It has to be a conversation
28th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, Neil Gaiman, writing, reaching your audience, writer-reader relationship, value the art |
"Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too."
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