"Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you're an author, you can tell whether you're really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog."

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Source : "Hand Me My Y-Chromosome". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 08, 2005.

Max Barry

#Sex Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.”

Source : Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”
“There is no question- love is the answer”
“Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.”
“What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?”

Source : Sylvia Louise Engdahl (2003). “Enchantress from the Stars”, Puffin
“But now isnâ€™t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until â€” later of sooner â€” perhaps â€” no, not perhaps â€” quite certainly: it will come.”
“Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife...”

Source : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 56
“American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.”
“Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Severed spinal cords may be rejoined. Damaged organs may be rebuilt. Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality.”

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