lilydvoratrelundar asked:
Neil: how much were you raised on mythology, or did you just do a lot of research? You use those stories so much from right at the beginning of your writing career, where did all that knowledge come from before you could just Google "which muse was mother of orpheus" in five seconds?
I don’t remember not loving Mythology. Roger Lancelyn-Green’s books of Egyptian, Norse and Greek myths were some of my favourite books when I was six or seven and any reference to anything mythological in other books would send me scurrying to reference works to try to understand more. (I’d read Prince Caspian and want to know Who was Silenus? Who were the Maenads and the dryads? And what about the Werewolf? What was he?) As I grew older, I discovered the Penguin books of Myths and Folk Tales, and the joys of second-hand bookshops. I suspect that it’s much better to let your obsessions drive the bus and hope they’ll take you somewhere you can write, rather than set out to write about something that’s going to need Lots of Research. It’s certainly easier.
cronicas-da-meia-noite asked:
About the battle between Dream and Lúcifer, what could defeat hope?
Abstract concepts are hard to defeat. Despair, perhaps. But without a glimmer of hope even Despair is meaningless.
Anonymous asked:
if you could be any sandman character, who would you be and why?
Well, Merv Pumpkinhead was all too often my way of commenting on the action. I mean, he’s right, much of the time, but fortunately nobody listens to him or there wouldn’t be a plot.
iamalinarose asked:
What’s it like to be on tumblr and observe everyone talking the Sandman?
Astonishingly reminiscent of what it was like to be on Tumblr and having everyone talking about Good Omens, only without the arguments about whether or not various occult and/or ethereal entities were gay.
