I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've laid out a very, very detailed immigration plan on my website, tedcruz.org. It's 11 pages of existing federal law and in… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and,… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954. — Bunny Yeager Copy Share Image
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
