When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out… — Carole King Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
We have to hear how [Donald] Trump is the bad guy and Trump poses the problem. And it's just maddening, infuriating. I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
A 'lewk' is like, 'I'm wearing a lewk today,' it's something that everybody will notice. It's like you're out of the pages… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London,… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
Kind of like Google crawls the Web, we crawl the social networks. Where Google analyzes links and Web pages, we look at… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
It's the way I make music, I will take two ideas and smash them together and if they sit well together for… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm often forced to draw a lot of tiny panels due to the limited number of pages and the complexity of the… — George Perez Copy Share Image
“Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV. — Charlene Li Copy Share Image
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image