It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason.… — Michael Tomasky Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a… — Douglas Coupland 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
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
“There is no story (regardless of how dark it might be) that does not contain within its pages a handful of words… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life. — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Adversity prunes the pages of growth and prosperity in the book of your life. You only have to determine how you shape… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image