![neil-gaiman:
A statement I stand beside, and an image I think sums up so many of our childhoods and lives.
kjmichalak:
“[D]on’t ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend’s copy. What’s important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read… ” ― Neil Gaiman
I stand beside this for Managing with Aloha and my books too. Within the joys of my life, are those stories shared with me about how people arrive at MWA, and then make themselves at home with it. Hearing these things is extremely rewarding, and I feel quite blessed to have been a part of it, no matter how small the part, for something in that spirit-spilling way of Aloha plays out.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1gxk0YYRe1rnqj4jo1_400.jpg)
A statement I stand beside, and an image I think sums up so many of our childhoods and lives.
“[D]on’t ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend’s copy. What’s important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read… ”
― Neil Gaiman
I stand beside this for Managing with Aloha and my books too. Within the joys of my life, are those stories shared with me about how people arrive at MWA, and then make themselves at home with it. Hearing these things is extremely rewarding, and I feel quite blessed to have been a part of it, no matter how small the part, for something in that spirit-spilling way of Aloha plays out.
