show runner, based on the novel he wrote with the late Terry Pratchett. Another series, American Gods, based on his novel starts its second season in a couple of months. And he's even managed to publish a couple of books in the last year.
Vanity Fair has just published a short interview with him in which he discusses his current projects. I found his comments on Twitter particularly interesting:
I think it’s terrific. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, and I didn’t know how. As far as I was concerned, writers were exalted, magical, godlike beings who probably walked six inches above the ground. I think I believed that one wrote a fairly decent poem, sent it out into the world, and never had to work again. Probably a limousine filled with groceries would show up once you’d written your poem, because, obviously, that was how it worked.It became easier when I started meeting writers. When I was a young journalist, the idea of actually talking to the people whose work I admired so much—Gene Wolfe or Diana Wynne Jones—was huge for me. It also made it achievable. So the idea that, you know, J.K. Rowling is somebody who could like your tweet on Twitter is a great thing for kids out there.
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