"Fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else’s eyes. You get to experience loss..."

“Fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else’s eyes. You get to experience loss and tragedy and death. But experience these things in a form which means that when you close the pages and put the book back on the shelf, it’s over and you’re home and you’re safe”

- Neil Gaiman, during an interview with Robin Young on Here and Now  (via la-arboleda)