Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over… — Genevieve Bujold Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers'… — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like “Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn’t a gateway… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as… — Martin Heinrich Copy Share Image
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
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![“Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/523/khaled-hosseini-251_black_fabio-celon-did-send-me-pages-as-he-prog_1240510.jpg)
![“[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In…” quote by Geraldine McCaughrean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f31/geraldine-mccaughrean-19228_broken_peter-pan-has-never-broken-his-terrible_73491.jpg)
