** spoiler alert ** The essays, though, weren't the uplift I was hoping for the new year. Gaiman describes a world that no longer exists. He describes the chances he took that got him where he is. These tricks won't work for the majority of the readers. They certainly won't work for marginalized artists at the scale they have worked for him. http://pussreboots.com/blog/2022/comm...

i feel the need to buy this book in order to have it on my shelf so that i can pick up and be encouraged by the words of this book. such an inspiring read that is so essential for readers that are pursuing careers in the arts.

This is a sweet little book to pick up any time you need some inspiration. I'm a teacher, and my profession is more frustrating all the time ... and yet it feels full of possibility in this moment because Neil Gaiman told me to make my own rules and to keep creating. I think I will.

Everyone should read this, I'm serious.

Neil Gaiman never ceases to amaze with his eloquently powerful writing and this book serves as much. In a manifesto on art, all kinds of art but mostly the passion of it, for a writer, for a reader, Gaiman explains how it's not just important but essential and dutiful to make good art and to share it.  I've always believed that the essence of living with passion is to live with art and this book just confirmed it. You may wonder why not pick other books on the matter, right? Maybe other authors said more about it? But Neil Gaiman's style adds to it all the more. And this book can be quoted start to finish without a doubt. The kind of book you'd want to sit in your library and read aloud for others.

Neil Gaiman never ceases to amaze with his eloquently powerful writing and this book serves as much. In a manifesto on art, all kinds of art but mostly the passion of it, for a writer, for a reader, Gaiman explains how it's not just important but essential and dutiful to make good art and to share it. I've always believed that the essence of living with passion is to live with art and this book just confirmed it. You may wonder why not pick other books on the matter, right? Maybe other authors said more about it? But Neil Gaiman's style adds to it all the more. And this book can be quoted start to finish without a doubt. The kind of book you'd want to sit in your library and read aloud for others.

This is a very important little book.