Four Word Quote by Anonymous

“She wrote his name on a piece of paper and lit it with a match. The letters curled as they turned dark and misshapen…

— Eric Overby

“The paper detritus that she had somewhere read, or had heard it said, trails armies, or was it (she had seen a photograph) the…

— Alice McDermott

“As though to fortify me she took the letter out and placed it on the table between us. Its pages were folded, yellowed like…

— Tan Twan Eng

“She’d already scanned every word a hundred times, absorbing every nuance in gradation and every stray mark of her mother’s pen—from the depth of…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

“Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi.…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“She took the paper from Yankel's hand, which was damp with rain, and fear of death, and death. Scrawled in a child's writing: Everything…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Her future was a blind spot, a blank page with an unwritten destiny, and this time, she held the pen.”

— K.L. Harris

“It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were in the…

— Henri Barbusse

“Mary lifted her own steno book. Only about six pages old, it still had its cool, slim heft and straight cardboard covers. By the…

— Alice McDermott

“At her elbow was a slim pile of creamy white paper beside which she laid down her pen. It was only then, at the…

— Ian McEwan

“Finally she found what she was looking for. “See, child?” she said, holding out a framed illustration that looked as if it had been…

— Jodi Picoult