It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood 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
People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches'… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems… — Robert Morgan 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
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to… — Jeffrey Veen Copy Share Image
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality,… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Unca Jay!" "How's it going Claire?" She giggled. "Qwil aaaaawl wet now." "I can see that. Where's your mama?" "Gone, gone, gone,"… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in… — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
“now i can safely claim the pages within these walls are more than my allies; they are my own” — Hanna Abi Akl Copy Share Image
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.' — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image