I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in… — Martin Walker Copy Share Image
If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us… — Deborah Butterfield Copy Share Image
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions,… — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In… — John M. Tyler Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found… — Erik Fosnes Hansen Copy Share Image
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality.… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form,… — Adolph Ochs Copy Share Image