Make Mistakes
Make interesting, amazing, glorious, fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art. — Neil Gaiman, Art Matters, “Make Good Art” Photo: South Riding,…
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Make Your Art
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance…
Make Good Art
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can…
Make Art
And remember that whatever discipline you are in, whether you are a musician or a photographer, a fine artist or a cartoonist, a writer, a dancer, a designer, whatever you…
Doing the Impossible
If you don’t know it’s impossible it’s easier to do. And because nobody’s done it before, they haven’t made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet. — Neil…
Libraries
We have an obligation to read for pleasure. If others see us reading, we show that reading is a good thing. We have an obligation to support libraries, to protest…
Communicating with the Dead
Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, the way that humanity has built…
Libraries
Libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education, about entertainment, about making safe spaces and about access to information. — Neil…
One of Life’s Great Joys
Visiting the library with young children is one of life’s great joys, because nothing compares to the experience of picking a book up, holding it, looking at it, seeing the…
Making Stories
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build…