I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've laid out a very, very detailed immigration plan on my website, tedcruz.org. It's 11 pages of existing federal law and in… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and,… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954. — Bunny Yeager Copy Share Image
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to… — Phil Kay 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
[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so… — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything. — Bob Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Native American and African American stories, and LGBTQ stories and stories of persons of mixed heritage. These are the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
![“[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes-ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting…” quote by Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/922/tom-bissell-20404_believe_m-y-first-published-book-had-just-appear_3038761.jpg)
