Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

Everything changes when we read.

If you’re a writer or want to be a writer or know a writer or live with a writer or have heard of a writer or even have ever read a book or have thought about reading a book or started reading a book or have even read this entire sentence this far, then you might like this book.

The future prison population is easy to roughly calculate based on the number of 10 and 11-year-olds who can’t read–and certainly couldn’t read for pleasure.

Neil Gaiman

If you don’t want to read or don’t like to read or like to tell yourself you don’t like to read then maybe you don’t want to read this book.

I’m going to suggest to you that reading for pleasure, reading fiction is one of the most important things one can do.

Neil Gaiman

A hackneyed and worn-out idea isn’t hackneyed and worn out to someone experiencing it for the first time.

Neil Gaiman