Neil Gaiman on the name "CORALINE":

cinderellainrubbershoes:

It started for me as a slip of the fingers—I was typing to a Caroline, and it came out wrong. Larry Niven wrote an essay collected in the Bretnor book on writing science fiction where he talks about treasuring your typos as ways to name characters or alien races, and…

(via teachingliteracy)

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2nd Jan 2011✧10:3765 notes
 
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    hmmmm
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    I absolutely LOVE the idea of treasuring your typos in this way.
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    def taking this advice.
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