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[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

— Jay Carr

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

— Cornelia Funke

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must…

— Annie Dillard

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

— Taylor Swift

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

— Jack Kerouac

From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop…

— Stuart Dybek

Most readers look at the photograph first. If you put it in the middle of the page, the reader will start by…

— David Ogilvy

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences,…

— Pattiann Rogers

Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)

— Christopher Paolini

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is…

— Diane Setterfield

The printed page was like wine to me.

— Robert E. Howard

I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

— Ron Howard

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing…

— Annie Proulx

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the…

— JoAnn Ross

Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he…

— George Henry Lewes

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

— Kathryn Stockett

In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.

— Patrick Wilson

Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial…

— John Fante

I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go…

— Debra Dean

Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors…

— Abraham Foxman

What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,…

— C. S. Lewis

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even…

— Merle Shain

In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you…

— Sherman Alexie

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it…

— Ellen Hopkins

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

— Garth Nix

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.…

— Jane Austen

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school…

— Dorothy Hodgkin

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody…

— Charles Dickens

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the…

— Mika Brzezinski

There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops…

— Anthony Lane

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations,…

— Chauncey Depew

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

— Marianne Williamson

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later…

— Aimee Bender

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base.…

— Alexander Payne

I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate…

— Jason Flemyng

About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand…

— Blake Butler