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Book: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
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  1. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Another piece of advice: I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work. So you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool. There are other people around who can do the mediocre meat and potatoes work that anybody can do. So let them do that. You make the art that only you can make. You tell the stories only you can tell.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    We all-adults and children, writers and readers-have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. We have an obligation to use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside. We have an obligation to use the language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly, to say what we mean. We must not attempt to freeze language, or to pretend it is a dead thing that must be revered, but we should use it as a living thing, that flows, that borrows words, that allows meanings and pronunciations to change with time.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. "If you want your children to be intelligent," he said, "read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Honesty matters. Vulnerability matters. Being open about who you were at a moment in time when you were in a difficult or an impossible place matters more than anything. Having a place the story starts and a place it's going, that's important. Telling your story as honestly as you can and leaving out the things you don't need, that's vital."
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education {which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university}, about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    You don't discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone has the same taste as you.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    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 them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story.
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