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1681 Page quotes by 1247 unique authors
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Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.…
— Diane Setterfield
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Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat?…
— Dodie Smith
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do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429
— Christopher Paolini
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
— Cornelia Funke
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For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to…
— Donald Miller
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Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his…
— Michel Faber
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We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately…
— Deb Caletti
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Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its…
— Eudora Welty
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
— Sherman Alexie
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I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my…
— Jamie O'Neill
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Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at…
— Diane Setterfield
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What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
— Margaret Atwood
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The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started…
— Shannon Hale
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At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could…
— Sylvia Plath
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We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin…
— David Almond
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I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to…
— Donald Miller
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I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the…
— Steve Erickson
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There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to…
— Betty Smith
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…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off…
— Gilbert Sorrentino
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Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured…
— Joanne Harris
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Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
— Marianne Williamson
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