“…somebody…told me she was reading [Coraline] to her 8 year old son and got rather upset, and nervous, and freaked-out, and her son patted her on the hand and said ‘It’s okay, it’s only a story.’ Which I thought was a very reassuring place to be. Kids understand that. Kids are really good at fiction.”
You tell ’em, Neil. A nice interview on SuicideGirls.com with Mr. Gaiman, one of my favorite people and a very smart man (though I do sometimes wonder why he used to keep his sunglasses on all the time: even in the breakfast room at Claridges. Ileen Maisel is still talking about that, Neil…).
