Mari

“…if you were trapped in an impossible situation, in an unpleasant place, with people who meant you ill and someone offered you a temporary escape, why wouldn't you take it? and escapist fiction is just that, fiction that opens the door- shows the sunlight outside, gives you a place to go where you are in control with people you want to be with.

And books are real places make no mistake about that.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“make YOUR art, do the stuff that only you can do...but the one thing you have that nobody else has, is you. Your voice, you remind, your story, your vision - so write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World