The magic and the danger of fiction
2nd February 2017 | for Creatives | reading, Neil Gaiman, magic/mystery of creating/art, storytelling, value the art |
"The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, cry for, people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
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