Neil Gaiman Quotes
Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.
Gaiman, Neil. Interview. Doctor Who Magazine, 2011.
The textbooks in the Egyptian schools and universities would change frequently as the politics of the nation and the world changed. This is typical in nations where ideology changes frequently. There is pressure for textbook change even in America, even over such basic science as evolution or interpretations of history and politics. In Egypt and most other nations even facts change from year to year.
Most religions are concerned with maintaining the authenticity and purity of their teachings and schisms and heretics often result when there are changes or some feel their ought to be changes. This quotation illustrates an unusual characteristic of the Bahai religion—the desire that their teachings change with the times and with new knowledge.
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.
