Hy Bender Quote
I did Barbie’s dream as a one-off thing, but I found it haunting me; I kept having an image in my head of Martin Tenbones getting killed in real New York.Still, that would’ve been the end of it...except, by a wild coincidence, a short time later I received a postcard from Jonathan Carroll. He wrote that he’d been following my graphic novel —which was being serialized in magazine at the time—and he was finding a number of very scary similarities between my story and his as yet unpublished novel, . He concluded, We’re like two radio sets tuned to the same goofy channel.I wrote back and said, I think you’re right. What’s more, I abandoned a whole storyline after reading , but I keep thinking I ought to return to it. Jonathan then sent me a wonderful letter with this advice: Go to it, man. Ezra Pound said that every story has already been written. The purpose of a good writer is to write it new. I would very much like to see a Gaiman approach to that kind of story. With that encouragement, I began creating .
I did Barbie’s dream as a one-off thing, but I found it haunting me; I kept having an image in my head of Martin Tenbones getting killed in real New York.Still, that would’ve been the end of it...except, by a wild coincidence, a short time later I received a postcard from Jonathan Carroll. He wrote that he’d been following my graphic novel —which was being serialized in magazine at the time—and he was finding a number of very scary similarities between my story and his as yet unpublished novel, . He concluded, We’re like two radio sets tuned to the same goofy channel.I wrote back and said, I think you’re right. What’s more, I abandoned a whole storyline after reading , but I keep thinking I ought to return to it. Jonathan then sent me a wonderful letter with this advice: Go to it, man. Ezra Pound said that every story has already been written. The purpose of a good writer is to write it new. I would very much like to see a Gaiman approach to that kind of story. With that encouragement, I began creating .
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