People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two… — John Green Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully… — Colleen Coble Copy Share Image
Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down,… — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations,… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. /… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
My [story] outlines are usually about 5-6 pages long. I'm essentially telling myself the story in short form. I try to make… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
When you're reading a newspaper and you're seeing ads on the page, it's not kind of invasive. Like, it's on the page… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence… — Ouida Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image