I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me. — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader. — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Having the great opportunity on a daily basis to sit in front of a blank page is terrifying, and at the same… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about… — Lorene Scafaria Copy Share Image
The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances;… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate.… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image