I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
“Music is my inspiration. When my brain and music come together they form something unpredictable. The songs are the talent that fuels… — Christina Casino Copy Share Image
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young 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
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I give every page a lot of thought. Probably too much, these days. At the end of the day, you've gotta trust… — Greg Capullo Copy Share Image
In fact, somebody keeps putting on my Wikipedia page that I'm either Don Pardo's son or grandson. I had an audition recently… — Jimmy Pardo Copy Share Image
No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill,… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
Today, I wanted to spend some time reading and responding to comments of fans on my Facebook page. Yes, there are great… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had… — Edmund White 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
Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image