![]() And when things get tough, this is what you should do. 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 go wrong. And if those job offers had come along earlier I might have taken them, because they still would have been closer to the mountain than I was at the time. It gets you through good times and it gets you through the other ones. I said no to editorial jobs on magazines, proper jobs that would have paid proper money because I knew that, attractive though they were, for me they would have been walking away from the mountain. And when I truly was not sure what to do, I could stop, and think about whether it was taking me towards or away from the mountain. ![]() My goal.Īnd I knew that as long as I kept walking towards the mountain I would be all right. Gaiman stands as the champion of the freedom of ideas and. ![]() Gaiman’s credo: I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast. Something that worked for me was imagining that where I wanted to be – an author, primarily of fiction, making good books, making good comics and supporting myself through my words – was a mountain. This book is a story about reading, libraries, librarians, writing, life choices, disappointments, and the belief that Art Matters. ![]() “Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get. ![]()
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