this is not my face...

"This is not what I look like. This is not my face...
Do you think Jane Yolen looks like her picture in this book? Or Peter Straub? Or Dianna Wynn Jones? Not so. They are wearing play faces to fool you. But the play faces come off, when the writing begins...
This is why those who encounter writers of fantasy, are rarely satisfied by the wholely inferior persons that they meet...
"I thought you'd be taller, or older, or prettier, or wiser..." they tell us. In words or wordlessly...
"This is not what I look like..." I tell them, "This is not my face...""

-from Neil Gaiman's introduction to "The Faces of Fantasy"