Page Quotes
1681 Page quotes by 1247 unique authors
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Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter.…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence…
— Cheryl Strayed
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It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it…
— Sara Sheridan
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It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the…
— Michael Ondaatje
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If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
— Andy Hargreaves
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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a…
— Adam Faith
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This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance…
— Stephen Graham Jones
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People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
— Max Barry
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The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author…
— Sid Fleischman
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When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush…
— Nancy Pearl
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I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.
— Harriet Doerr
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There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
— Zayn Malik
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One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes,…
— Philip K. Jason
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Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a…
— Elif Batuman
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Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.
— Heather Gudenkauf
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Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the…
— David Almond
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I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a…
— Cory Doctorow
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If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful…
— Claude Debussy
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page…
— Eudora Welty
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Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box…
— J. J. Abrams
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do…
— Bill Moyers
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You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.
— Unknown Author
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When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you…
— Dave Matthews
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They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten;…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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