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Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
by Neil Gaiman
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Inspiring letters from Neil Gaiman with illustrations from Chris Riddell for all those who are creative.
To start off, as a librarian, I absolutely love Gaiman’s stance on the importance of libraries and librarian staff. His reasoning for loving them is the same as mine - to open worlds up to all.
“Fiction builds empathy. Fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people in it and look out through other eyes. You’re being someone else, and when you return to your own world, you’re going to be slightly changed.”
This book makes you think you can do anything. And sometimes, especially as a writer struggling to find words, this book is what you need to crack your knuckles and get back to work.
I borrowed this from work, but I have a feeling I’m going to try and find my own copy of this for myself as a kick in the butt for motivation when I need it.