read outside of your comfort zone
10th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, Neil Gaiman, writing, never stop LEARNING |
"If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don't read big Tolkienesque fantasies—Tolkien didn't read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff."
— Neil Gaiman
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