It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader. — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make… — John Lennon 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
This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh.… — Ken Jeong Copy Share Image
My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
The patient man is merry indeed… The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Love is like a lighthouse, a beacon in the dark. When you lose the path that lights your way, you feel that… — Laura Ramirez Copy Share Image
Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories… — Chiara Barzini Copy Share Image
The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?"… — Cameron Johnson Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do… — Emmanuel Petit Copy Share Image
Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united. — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up. — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set… — Chris Hondros Copy Share Image
From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
