#thin

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#anyone #anything #i #publish #relieved

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#also #brother #glory #i #i think

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#got #grow #help #hurt #one thing

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#believe #does #god #i #i believe

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

— Ernest Gaines

#home #i #say #something #wanted

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#figure #find #i #i am #i think

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#condition #exist #eyes #his #just

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#anything #being #church #else #go

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#else #enjoy #find #i #much

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#difficult #down #feel #more #next