"I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not."

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A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

— Rumer Godden