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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#dance #draw #else #live #mind

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#different #granted #know #less #like

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #concentrating #effort #novels #prose

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#amendment rights #book #comic #comic book #comics

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#current #first #freedom #freedom of speech #guaranteed

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#characters #creating #i #i believe #i believe in

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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