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I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

— George Best

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

— R. L. Stine

“I’ll see you as the fates allow. Until then, I’m yours on these pages.”

— Cara McKenna

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

— Bernard Malamud

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

— Tom Stoppard

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

— Neil Diamond

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

— Lily King

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

— Patricia MacLachlan

The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan,…

— James Patterson

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

— Carolyn Murphy

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be…

— George Gissing

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

— Ellen Hopkins

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

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

— Garth Nix

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.

— Leonard Cohen

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do…

— Daniela Ruah

I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger…

— Jan Brett

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to…

— Rita Dove

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a…

— J. J. Abrams

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what…

— Christopher Guest

You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you.…

— Cotton Mather

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story,…

— Rebecca Stead

The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it…

— Henry B. Eyring

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me,…

— David Sedaris

Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has…

— Anonymous

The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I…

— Miriam Toews

Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable…

— Florence King

A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took…

— Maya Angelou

A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I…

— Matt de la Pena

I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer,…

— Tim Ferriss

I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go…

— Debra Dean

You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.

— Markus Zusak

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

— Blaine Hogan

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

— Donald Miller

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

— Regina Brett

“When you run, you log on to yourself. You flip through the pages of your being.”

— Kevin Nelson

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

— Richard Peck

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

— Harry Connick, Jr