#ed

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#allowing #comedy #folk #freedom #glorious

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#been #brick #brick wall #convinced #divided

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#best #honestly #i #matter #needs

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#change #controlled #men #past #struggling

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#home #i #say #something #wanted

The mark of fear is not easily removed. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#fear #mark #removed

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#everyone #feeling #felt #gets #i

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#because #comedy #game #i #me

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#hoped #i #judgments #other #protect

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#always #fed #fed up #got #i