Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not.… — Liana Liberato Copy Share Image
When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise -… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David… — Liz Curtis Higgs Copy Share Image
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration.… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image