One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that… — Bill Williams Copy Share Image
Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning… — J. C. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
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As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they… — Mark Twain 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 started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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