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I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to… — Sylvia Boorstein 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
If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages,… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The Republicans finally got some good news over the weekend. The North Koreans set off a nuclear bomb. Thank God. It was… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
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I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out… — Carole King Copy Share Image
I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
And the reason you hate writing so much is because you start analyzing your work before you're done pouring it onto the… — Jeff Bollow Copy Share Image
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like… — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
