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There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room and play a… — Arnold Jacobs
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something… — Donald E. Westlake
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get… — Anne Lamott
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid. — Stacy Schiff
Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you… — John C. Parkin
Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that… — Debby Ryan
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times. — Patricia Reilly Giff
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it. — Charles Kuralt
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into… — Daniel Hannan
I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is… — David S. Goyer
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs. — Abdul Kalam
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly… — Ashley Kahn
You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit… — Anne Perry
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the… — Chauncey Depew
I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I… — Jesmyn Ward
Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story unless that… — Robert A. Heinlein
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling. — Dani Shapiro
Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it… — Dani Shapiro
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as… — Art Buchwald
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of… — Alberto Manguel
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein
They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to… — Manil Suri
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… — E. M. Forster

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