So I thought I’d tell you everything I wish I’d known starting out, and a few things that, looking back on it, I suppose that I did know.

The nearest thing I had was a list I made when I was about 15 of everything I wanted to do: I wanted to write an adult novel, a children’s book, a comic, a movie, record an audiobook, write an episode of Doctor Who… and so on. I’m not sure I can call it a career, because a career implies that I had some kind of career plan, and I never did. Looking back, I’ve had a remarkable ride. Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family, who attended Universities, were cured of long ago. I got out into the world, I wrote, and I became a better writer the more I wrote, and I wrote some more, and nobody ever seemed to mind that I was making it all up as I went along, they just read what I wrote and they paid me for it, or they didn’t, and often they commissioned me to write something else for them. I escaped from school as soon as I could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced learning before I could become the writer I wanted to be seemed stifling. I never graduated from any such establishment. I never really expected to find myself giving advice to people graduating from an establishment of higher education. Listen to the MP3 Audio here: Neil Gaiman 2012 Commencement Speech – Make Good Art OL19964976W Pages 88 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201002232144 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 588 Scandate 20200930081714 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780062266767 Tts_version 4.The following is the full transcript of the commencement speech “Make Good Art” delivered by Neil Gaiman to the University of the Arts Class of 2012 on May 17, 2012. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:04:37 Associated-names Kidd, Chip, designer Boxid IA1954221 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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