At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
If your program has a great leader, you'll get great things. If you don't have a great leader and people aren't on… — Deshaun Watson Copy Share Image
You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes” — Goitsemang Sandra Mvula Copy Share Image
And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit.… — Andre Pratte Copy Share Image
We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and that’s fine, but we have contact with our… — Brady Quinn Copy Share Image
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie 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
Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious. — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
