The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that. — Katie Price Copy Share Image
As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429 — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And… — Sarah Dessen 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
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure;… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I actually never acted on "Deadwood." I have meetings all the time where people look at my IMDb page and see that… — Anthony Jeselnik 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
I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It's called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
For some people, it's very easy to be spontaneous and they can pour out the most wonderful stuff. But it's really hard… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or… — Isaac D'Israeli 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
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page! — Deniece Schofield Copy Share Image
Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages. — Naomi Grossman Copy Share Image
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
