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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

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I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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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

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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

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Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. ↗

— Mary Garden

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I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? ↗

— Philip Larkin

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Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. ↗

— Brian Molko

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David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character. ↗

— William Devane

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