The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny. — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.)… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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