With four TV shows in production and now a theatre show, the author is more in demand than he has ever been.
Neil Gaiman says the pandemic meant a two-year delay in transferring his dark fairytale to the West EndNo stranger to transporting readers to fantastical and spiritual realms, author Neil Gaiman says everyone"needs a little belief".
"One thing that I've learnt about being a person in a world filled with millions upon millions, upon millions of other people, is that I know that what goes on in my head and in my world isn't what you experience in your head and in your world. "I have no idea what actually constitutes objective reality at this point, so I think you definitely need a little belief to get you through, whatever form that belief takes."Speaking ahead of the opening weekend of the first major stage adaptation of his work, The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, Gaiman admitted that despite selling over 50 million books he still struggles to come to terms with his popularity.
"I can't wrap my head around any of it and it has actually got weirder… I keep getting people coming up to me and asking for autographs, things like that, it is really, really odd."This year in particular, with four TV shows in production and now a theatre show, the author is more in demand than he has ever been.
He admitted that finding himself so busy after last year's lockdown was strange knowing that, from a work point-of-view,"suddenly when the fuse finally hit the little barrel of gunpowder, everything would explode".