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I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original… — Isaac D'Israeli
You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied. — Harry S. Truman
I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… — Thomas Carlyle
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page. — Brody Dalle
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when… — Alfred North Whitehead
It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell… — Christopher Hitchens
A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values. — Barack Obama
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can… — E L Doctorow
From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site. — Joe Greene
One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to… — Lucy Larcom
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see… — Herman Wouk
Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more… — Mike Royko
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be… — Joseph Epstein
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page. — Calvin Trillin
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline. — Ernest Gaines
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the… — Martin Amis
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item. — Jay McInerney
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the… — John Lahr
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page. — Natalie Goldberg
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her… — William Least Heat-Moon
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own. — Alfred Kazin
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays

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