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Neil Gaiman

Author of fiction, comics and screenplays

United Kingdom · b. 1960

British writer whose work includes the comics series The Sandman and the novels American Gods, Coraline and Neverwhere. He began his career as a journalist and did not attend university.

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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?

And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.

Recorded 134th Commencement, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, University of the Arts (uarts.edu), via the Internet Archive, 17 May 2012 source

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