People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. — Max Barry Copy Share Image
every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged — Max Barry Copy Share Image
... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged… — Michael Grunwald Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
I killed my Facebook page years ago because time clicking around is just dead time. Your brain isn't resting and it isn't… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
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If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either.… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. — Sarah McCoy Copy Share Image
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Jesus commissioned his church to make disciples of all nations. In this carefully researched work, Thomas Hudgins fleshes out the methods and… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image