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I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good…

— Ernest Gaines

About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody…

— Lev Grossman

You can fix anything but a blank page.

— Nora Roberts

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of…

— Denise Duhamel

Write a page a day. It will add up.

— Herman Wouk

I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name…

— Jim C. Hines

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

— Regina Brett

Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so…

— Paul Dano

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

— Karen Kingsbury

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper…

— Stephen Colbert

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

— Keri Russell

Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

— Sonya Hartnett

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I…

— Mitch Albom

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free…

— Paul Ryan

I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if…

— Tracy K. Smith

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie…

— Quentin Tarantino

I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even…

— Daniel Suarez

I calculated that if I wrote five pages a day, which seemed very doable, I would have an 1,800-page first draft when…

— Michael Showalter

A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four…

— Wayne Coyne

I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's…

— Robert Cormier

In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is…

— Ken Kalfus

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