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Over
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the years, one of the things that I've
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given an enormous amount of thought to
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is what my responsibilities are as a
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person who creates art.
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It wasn't something I thought about to
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begin with.
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It wasn't until um a man was found dead
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believed to be a suicide
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with a note on his chest saying that the
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Sandman did it and the Sandman would
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bring perfect peace and a copy of
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Sandman by the body that I had to go
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hang on. Did did I do this? What
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happened?
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and I had a very very bad weekend.
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And then
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a few days later,
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I discovered that actually he wasn't it
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wasn't a suicide. He'd been murdered.
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He'd been murdered by his boyfriend who
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had written the note and put the comic
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there to try and make people think that
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this was a Sandman inspired suicide.
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And the boyfriend also killed himself.
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And I was very angry.
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I felt like someone had tried to frame
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me for murder. But I also thought that
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the questions that it raised, what is my
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responsibility
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were huge and important questions.
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And what I decided was
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my responsibility
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is to tell good stories, tell honest
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stories,
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tell them as well as I can. Tell them to
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as many people as I can.
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My responsibility
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is to encapsulate
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as much as I can the things I believe
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and the values that I believe in the
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stories,
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but also
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having a point of view, being willing to
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allow other points of view in to be able
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to allow characters who I might not even
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want to associate with into my fiction
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and to do them justice. Those
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I figure are my responsibility
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and that for me
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has to be there at the bottom of
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everything that I write. So I need to be
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able to point to good omens and say yes
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it's a far it's a silly funny far about
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the end of the world but absolutely it
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has a message I can stand behind. It
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says that human beings have to be
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responsible. We have to fix the world.
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That war is very rarely a good idea. And
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avoiding war, which rarely gets praised,
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actually is huge and important. And that
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really we have to remember that the
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greatest triumphs and the greatest
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tragedies of the human race
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and nothing to do with people being
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basically good or people being basically
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evil. They're all to do with people
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being basically people.
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And so that I can take a fast and I can
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stand behind it. I can say this this is
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something I believe. This is real. I can
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take a book like Coraline
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and say
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it's filled with scary stuff for kids.
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Absolutely. There are people who feel
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that is absolutely and utterly
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inappropriate and kids should be kept
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safe from all the darkness and all the
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terror and all the bad things. And to
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those people I say good luck to you.
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Although I personally believe that if
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you are keeping people, young people
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safe from the darkness, then all you're
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doing is when the darkness shows up, you
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are denying them tools or weapons that
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they might have needed and could have
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had.
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But really, it's a book about bravery.
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It's a book about carrying on.
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And that for me is important. I know I
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can be responsible with that. So, I can
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absolutely stand by, you know, people
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like, "How can you write a book of
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horror for a seven-year-old child?" And
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I can say, "I can do it as best as I
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possibly can because there are kids out
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there who need to know that they'll get
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through this."
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So, you've just finished the class.
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Let me give you some advice.
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The first question that I get asked
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all the time
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is I am an aspiring writer. What should
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I do?
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And I give an answer that is meant
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absolutely seriously and some people
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think it's flippant. It isn't. That
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answer is you should write.
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And some people say yes I am already
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writing
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what should I do now
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and I say you should finish things
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and some people again think I'm joking
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but some people go ah yes you have a
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very good point I should finish things
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and they go off and now they continue to
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write but they start to finish things
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sometimes people need other kinds of
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advice.
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I remember Brian Vaughn
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uh wonderful writer did why the last man
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when he was very young came up to me and
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he said what should I do I want to be a
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writer and
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it isn't happening and I got him to tell
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me a little bit about why it wasn't
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happening for him and what became
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apparent from what he was saying was he
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could write he could finish things. He
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just didn't have anything to say. And I
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said, "Good. So, what you should do?" I
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said, "Look, normally I would tell
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people just to write, just to finish
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things for you,
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go out there into the world. Go get a
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job. Go get fired from a job. Go get
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your heart broken. See as much of the
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world as you can. Find things. Bump into
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things. Get hurt.
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come back in a few years time and you
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will have a lot of things to write
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about.
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And he did. And when he came back and he
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told me the story, he said, "Do you tell
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that to everybody?" And I said, "No, I
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tell it to people every now and again
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when it seems like that's what they
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need." But it is a really good thing to
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remember that the experience is good.
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Reading is fantastic. Read everything
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you can, write everything you can, but
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do a lot of living because everything
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that happens in the living is going to
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wind up in the fiction. It's going to be
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needed. You are going to need every
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human being you ever meet. You're going
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to need everything that you see because
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one day you'll write a story and you'll
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realize that actually you can write this
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story because once
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on a mountaintop in China,
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a little man tried to sell you a pot of
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snow white honey.11625
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