My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page. — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than… — Kurt Busiek 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
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the… — Bruce Davison Copy Share Image
I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
When we talk about the environment, about creation, my thoughts turn to the first pages of the Bible, the Book of Genesis,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
As time passes on I turn the next page To discover a new me while I continue to age. I may no… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
--I lifted one foot from the brackish water, and the bunny slippers were soaked and drooped pathetically. Even the fangs seemed robbed… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes… — Hilary Mantel 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
every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged — Max Barry 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
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
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
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with… — Elon Musk 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
If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right. — Elizabeth Edwards 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
