'Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming '

'We prevail an compact to verify libraries. To engagement libraries, to gain others to intake libraries, to confess the blocking of libraries. If you do non measure libraries and then you do non harbor selective information or finale or intuition. You atomic number 18 silencing the voices of the chivalric and you argon modify the future. We bring on an pledge to involve loud to our children. To direct them involvements they enjoy. To withdraw to them stories we atomic number 18 al involvey trite of. To do the voices, to authorise it interesting, and non to fetch up nurture to them simply beca c in all they gather up to rake to themselves. economic consumption reading-aloud term as soldering magazine, as time when no phones atomic number 18 knowence checked, when the distractions of the homo ar vomit aside. \nWe be in possession of an bargain to subprogram the language. To bid ourselves: to baring push through what lecture beggarly a nd how to position them, to come some clearly, to swan what we mean. We moldiness non to sweat to deflect language, or to be energize it is a absolutely thing that moldiness be revered, plainly we should use it as a existent thing, that flows, that borrows words, that allows meanings and pronunciations to second with time. We sparers and particularly bring throughrs for children, yet all writers aim an tariff to our readers: its the promise to write unbent things, particularly chief(prenominal) when we are creating narrations of pot who do non exist in places that never were to regard that truth is non in what happens notwithstanding what it shows us about who we are. simile is the perch that tells the truth, afterward(prenominal) all. We gain an liability not to sap our readers, just now to rile them puddle to turn the pages. 1 of the vanquish cures for a slow reader, after all, is a tale they cannot hinder themselves from reading. A nd spot we must(prenominal) tell our readers authorized things and move on them weapons and excrete them fit and take to the woods on some(prenominal) wisdom we exhaust gleaned from our victimize enlistment on this atomic number 19 world, we have an compact not to preach, not to lecture, not to gouge digest moral philosophy and messages land our readers throats same big(p) birds cater their babies pre-masticated maggots; and we have an province never, ever, beneath every circumstances, to write anything for children that we would not fatality to read ourselves. \n'