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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words… — Joan Baez
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings… — Stephen King
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come… — Gerald Brenan
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the… — Stephen King
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write… — Eric Partridge
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy… — Unknown Author
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature. — H. A. L. Fisher
Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your… — Gordon Ramsay
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition… — John Maynard Keynes
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it… — Annie Dillard
You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible… — Dave Barry
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. — Hosea Ballou
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it. — Bob Dylan
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to… — Ani DiFranco
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I… — James Taylor
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the… — James Rollins
I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before… — Muhammad Ali
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and… — Margot Livesey

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