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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences. Giles Foden

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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures. Giles Foden

Writing Other Has-Been Since Dialogue Been Beginnings American

One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too tempting. You try to shoehorn things that don't belong. Gillian Flynn

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Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book. Gillian Flynn

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I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious. Gin Wigmore

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'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul. Gina Prince-Bythewood

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As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line. Glenn Close

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I've always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one's readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do. Glenn Greenwald

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I'm really bad at writing jokes. Glenn Howerton

Jokes Writing Bad Really

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that. Glennon Doyle Melton

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. Gloria Swanson

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I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy. Gnash

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. Gore Vidal

Faith Business Writing Become Lost Priestly Countries Fiction

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. Gore Vidal

Writing Old Most Terrible Legacy American Frontier

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. Gore Vidal

Writing Remember Remember When Actually

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. Gore Vidal

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This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.' Gotye

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My mother inculcated wisdom in us, and I want to preserve her wisdom in writing. Govinda

Wisdom Writing Mother Inculcated Want Us Her Preserve

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation. Grace Paley

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