'Whole worlds to share'

 

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world.”  - Neil Gaiman

Gaiman, a native of Portchester, England, was born in November of 1960  He is the author of hundreds of articles, short stories and books, including the award-winning Sandman series and the multi-award-winning The Graveyard Book, a great example of a really interesting idea being brought to life (so to speak) through a story.   

 

Gaiman's protagonist in The Graveyard Book is a young boy who lives in a graveyard where he’s being raised by the occupants (yep, those "occupants"), proving again that storytelling is limited only by the depth of a writer's imagination.   So if you've been thinking of trying to write, there's no time like the present and remember, it might be all in your imagination - and that's a good thing.    

            

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you,” Gaiman said.  "Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”