#use

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#american #cause #each #every #gods

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'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #book #create #different #effects

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

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

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#boy #cause #cut #degrading #girl

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

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #economists #employment #extremely #form

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#believe #endowed #feel #forgo #god

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends. ↗

— David Gallagher

#dating #fun #i #little #pick