Pages Quotes · Page 117

And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for…

— Zadie Smith

Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than…

— Butch Otter

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

— Bill Walton

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out…

— Sydney Samuelson

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every…

— Phyllis Diller

I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

— Michele Jaffe

An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you…

— John Grisham

Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes;…

— Chris Ware

As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the…

— Diana Gabaldon

In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work…

— Barack Obama

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as…

— Francoise Gilot

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

— James W. Loewen

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

— Stephan Pastis

We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight…

— David Almond

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good…

— Neil Gaiman

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

— Mickey Spillane

Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God.

— Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will…

— Dorothy Bryant

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't…

— Dolph Lundgren

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be…

— Harry S. Truman

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

— Ken Blanchard

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be…

— Brené Brown

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to…

— Rita Dove

Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must…

— Zachary Schomburg