All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it… — Kelly Masterson Copy Share Image
Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale,… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world. — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp,… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
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
As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The process of doing films is not my favorite, but I love television. Television is a quicker turnaround. You shoot more during… — Jaime Pressly Copy Share Image
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue.. But personally it’s exciting already. — Minzy Copy Share Image
