![]() Looking back, I’ve had a remarkable ride. Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family, who attended Universities, were cured of long ago. I got out into the world, I wrote, and I became a better writer the more I wrote, and I wrote some more, and nobody ever seemed to mind that I was making it all up as I went along, they just read what I wrote and they paid me for it, or they didn’t, and often they commissioned me to write something else for them. I escaped from school as soon as I could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced learning before I could become the writer I wanted to be seemed stifling. I never graduated from any such establishment. I never really expected to find myself giving advice to people graduating from an establishment of higher education. Listen to the MP3 Audio here: Neil Gaiman 2012 Commencement Speech – Make Good Art ![]() ![]() The following is the full transcript of the commencement speech “Make Good Art” delivered by Neil Gaiman to the University of the Arts Class of 2012 on May 17, 2012. ![]()
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