Quote from a writer about using pain

[kjorteo]

Hello,

Some writer was being interviewed on some show I was watching and I really really want to say it was Neil Gaiman on the Colbert Report, but I just rewatched that interview and didn't see the quote in there... either it got cut from the online clip and there's some extended version somewhere that has it, or I'm getting him confused with

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[calenture]

"As for my take on Shakespeare, I'm basing a lot of it on what I personally find scary about being a storyteller. When something terrible is happening, 99 percent of you is feeling terrible, but 1 percent is standing off to the side - like a little cartoon devil on our shoulder - and saying, 'I can use this. Let's see, I'm so upset that I'm actually crying. Are my eyes just tearing, or are they stinging? Yes, they're stinging, and I can feel the tears rolling down my cheeks. How do they feel? Hot. Good, what else?' That's the kind of disconnectedness I wanted to explore."

It is from Neil Gaiman, and I found the quote on TVTropes (warning: TVTropes). Apparently it's from The Sandman Companion.

[kjorteo]

That's puzzling... that is exactly it, but I've never read Sandman (or its Companion) in my life. I wonder where and how I saw that, then...?

Well, that's a mystery for another time, I suppose. For now, yes, that's it, thank you so much!!

[im_an_aaangel]

I've never read the book either but I've seen it somewhere too. I'm guessing it was Tumblr or some other social media since everyone quote Gaiman all the time.

[cactus_rs]

I remember this too! I don't think it was Neil Gaiman, though. IIRC it was Stephen King on The Tonight Show (with Stephen Colbert).