It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Internet, the word "navigation" had this ingrained in it. There really was a sensation of the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me,… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet.… — Jack Barakat Copy Share Image
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Although logging workouts seems to be a very simple action, it is often forgotten. Once several days go by, it is hard… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and… — Julian Huxley 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
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest… — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your… — Joe 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
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with… — Albert Lee Copy Share Image
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
One of the more popular activities was “Talk-O-Matic”. Five people at a time could write messages, and read each other's messages, on… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
