Yes, I Am Still Alive (Mostly)
Feb. 4th, 2009 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitriI love Neil Gaiman's blog:
(The biggest problem with being over-interviewed, and exhausted, and testy, and very, very tired, is you get much too honest. Journalist today, "Do you write books with fantasies because you are not happy in the real world?" Me, "Why would you ask such a question? I mean, do you actually think that people write fantasies because they're miserable, while realistic novelists are all incredibly happy? Is that what you really think? I mean, it seems an astonishingly silly question even to ask. Do you have a point or a reason for asking it?" It was several hours later that I realised that I might have torpedoed my reputation for gentle diplomacy in this part of the world.)
I wish I could be brutally and hilariously honest.
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Still exhausted but hanging in there. FWIW, it looks like the SF Exhibit I've been lobbying for (for probably officially a year now) will now actually happen. March 12, 2010 is the tentative date.
(The biggest problem with being over-interviewed, and exhausted, and testy, and very, very tired, is you get much too honest. Journalist today, "Do you write books with fantasies because you are not happy in the real world?" Me, "Why would you ask such a question? I mean, do you actually think that people write fantasies because they're miserable, while realistic novelists are all incredibly happy? Is that what you really think? I mean, it seems an astonishingly silly question even to ask. Do you have a point or a reason for asking it?" It was several hours later that I realised that I might have torpedoed my reputation for gentle diplomacy in this part of the world.)
I wish I could be brutally and hilariously honest.
~
Still exhausted but hanging in there. FWIW, it looks like the SF Exhibit I've been lobbying for (for probably officially a year now) will now actually happen. March 12, 2010 is the tentative date.
