"Chesterton and Tolkien and Lewis were, as I’ve said, not the only writers I read between the ages of six and thirteen, but they were the authors I read over and over again; each of them played a part in building me. Without them, I cannot imagine that I would have become a writer, and certainly not a writer of fantastic fiction. I would not have understood that the best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming, nor that the majesty and the magic of belief and dreams could be a vital part of life and of writing."
Neil Gaiman (via neil-gaiman)
I had an experience reading Lewis (In my case with his Space Trilogy and The Screwtape Letters) very similar to the one Neil describes here. Great speech.
(Source: neilgaiman, via neil-gaiman)
