Frases de Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Data de nascimento: 10. Novembro 1960
Outros nomes:Neil Richard Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman FRSL , nascido Neil Richard Gaiman e conhecido como Neil Gaiman, é um autor britânico de contos, romances, banda desenhada e roteiros radicado nos Estados Unidos.
Entre suas obras em prosa estão Deuses Americanos e Good Omens, a segunda em parceria com Terry Pratchett. Sua banda desenhada mais conhecida é Sandman, que tem como personagens principais Sandman e seus irmãos, Morte, Destino, Delírio, Desejo, Desespero e Destruição.
As capas da revista foram desenhadas pelo parceiro artístico e amigo de Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean . Em seus trabalhos cinematográficos, encontramos MirrorMask, seu filme ao lado de Dave McKean e a Jimmy Hensons Company que estreou em maio de 2005 e Neverwhere, minissérie para televisão que escreveu, e foi exibida pela BBC em 1996. No mesmo ano foi lançado o romance homónimo baseado na série. Em 2007, entrou em cartaz a animação Beowulf, co-roteirizada por ele, além do longa de Stardust, uma de suas mais aclamadas obras, realizada ao lado de Charles Vess.
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Citações Neil Gaiman
„Toda a gente tem um mundo secreto dentro de si. Toda a gente no mundo. Toda a gente mesmo. Podem ser as pessoas mais aborrecidas ou chatas por fora, mas dentro delas têm mundos inimagináveis, magníficos, maravilhosos, estúpidos e incríveis. E não é apenas um mundo, são centenas deles. Milhares até.“
— Neil Gaiman
The Sandman
„Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.“
— Neil Gaiman
Context: Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.
The character "Rose Walker" in The Sandman #65
„Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.“
— Neil Gaiman
Context: We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
„Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.“
— Neil Gaiman
Context: Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. I knew a lot of writers in London and many of them were award-winning writers and many of them were award-winning, respectable writers. And the trouble with being an award-winning, respectable writer is that you probably are not making a living.
If you write one well-reviewed, well-respected, not bad selling, but not a bestseller list book every three years, which you sell for a whopping 30,000 pounds, that's still going to average out to 10,000 pounds a year and you will make more managing a McDonald's. With overtime you'd probably make more working in a McDonald's. So there were incredibly well-respected, award-winning senior writers who, to make ends meet, were writing film novelizations and TV novelizations under pen names that they were desperately embarrassed about and didn't want anybody to know about.
January magazine interview (2002)
