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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 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

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

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#believe #better #earth #else #lie

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

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

The mark of fear is not easily removed. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#fear #mark #removed

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

We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company. ↗

— Thomas Gainsborough

#going #heaven

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#inside #job #more #personal #really