Writing quote from Neil Gaiman
With a hat tip to Devo for sending me this article.... (An interview of Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon by Lev Grossman, who recently did that very nice article on fanfiction. You know, the guy who actually asked us questions and then listened...)
"I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different." -- Neil Gaiman, 2005
Yeah. This is so completely me. In fact...
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"I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different." -- Neil Gaiman, 2005
Yeah. This is so completely me. In fact...
View poll: Writing types
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