I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill… — Freddy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An… — Manil Suri 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
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text… — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and… — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Today, I wanted to spend some time reading and responding to comments of fans on my Facebook page. Yes, there are great… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on… — Nicolas Cage 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
Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page,… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an… — Ivan Vladislavic Copy Share Image
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
Honestly, I hate Facebook - it has nothing on Myspace. I loved how weird and crappy and wild and trashy it was.… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span,… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Anytime anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally, you'll be wrong if you… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image