Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
If your program has a great leader, you'll get great things. If you don't have a great leader and people aren't on… — Deshaun Watson Copy Share Image
You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes” — Goitsemang Sandra Mvula Copy Share Image
And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit.… — Andre Pratte Copy Share Image
We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and that’s fine, but we have contact with our… — Brady Quinn Copy Share Image
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about… — Lorene Scafaria Copy Share Image
Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious. — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
When we talk about the environment, about creation, my thoughts turn to the first pages of the Bible, the Book of Genesis,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
I'm addicted to the Internet. I admit it. It has transformed the way I work as a senator, communicate with my children,… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as… — Martin Heinrich Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand. — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own. — Joanna Kerns Copy Share Image
Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work… — Bunny Yeager Copy Share Image
My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character. — Ashley Scott Copy Share Image
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image