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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
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
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People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He… — John Green Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news,… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
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My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that… — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
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Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally,… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Why are other people profiting off that? I can see that if I have the page and sold it for $50 and… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
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The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on… — Joe Mantegna Copy Share Image
Our lives are so visual now, with social media and we're constantly shifting gears. Nobody requires a table of contents. Nobody requires… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
After 'Punk'd,' my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
I will make individual deals with individuals countries. No longer will we enter into these massive transactions with many countries that are… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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