My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to… — Lamar Hunt Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“What I fault newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning… — Ronald Koeman Copy Share Image
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the… — Robert G. Picard Copy Share Image
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV,… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them. — Tom Daley Copy Share Image
I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she… — Siobhan Fallon Hogan Copy Share Image
Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers… — Mary Cheney Copy Share Image
Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The first time I showed the tattoo it was big news in the newspaper. 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's… — Li Na Copy Share Image
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image