“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
That’s why you call it a budget. You set it and you don’t budge. — Jennifer Morrison Copy Share Image
“Admit your kung fu is weak, and I will spare you the final blow.” “Eat [censored] and die, [also censored]!” — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof.… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
“Scots from hogtowns or cowtowns work from cockcrow to moondown -- to chop down woodlots, to plow down cornrows.” — Christian Bök Copy Share Image
“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." [ Women Know Everything! ]” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.” — Django Wylie Copy Share Image
I now have a new reason for living. It is my life's goal to make my girlfriend laugh so hard that she… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see… — John Langdon Copy Share Image
I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
“Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?' Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, tempting fate. She plays a terrible game of names.… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life.… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense… — Initially NO Copy Share Image
And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“I have mentioned my patient Harvey, but I have failed to properly discuss him and the odd coincidence, or almost co-incidence, of… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“I dunno." She sat on the bench and hugged the robe like a pillow. "I still think that Brett guy is cute."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We rarely get the chance to see things anew. I remember a Latin translation that caused me to fail an exam at… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred Hellian.] 'With what?' [Banaschar] sneered. 'Explanations?'… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
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