Tim Ogline has posted up some good coverage of Neil Gaiman’s appearance at the Fifth Annual Pen World Voices Festival on the Wild River Review, talking with World Voices director Caro Llewellyn; its an interesting read and a nice sequel of sorts to Tim’s previous chat with Neil we linked to a couple of years back:
“Gaiman shared his boyhood frustration of books by authors (even his beloved Ray Bradbury!) who just didn’t seem to be speaking with authenticity when they were writing in the voice of a child. It was as if many adults forgot how to be a kid… or that they were ever a kid to begin with for that matter. Neil thought it was important to channel that inner sense of wonder, that childlike sense of awe, when writing for children with Coraline or The Graveyard Book.”
August 24th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
NEIL GAIMAN: BOOKISH, BUT SUBVERSIVE by @timogline cited on the Forbidden Planet International Blog: http://tinyurl.com/kt46l3 @neilhimself