A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the… — Arthur Rock Copy Share Image
I left Israel to work as a model, to just make money - I didn't care if I was doing an ad… — Moran Atias Copy Share Image
The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
My friend goes through the wedding section of the Sunday paper looking at the brides-to-be and picks out a Dog-of-the-Week. I think… — David Henry Copy Share Image
I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major. — Nas Copy Share Image
Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image