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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave… — Zadie Smith
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’ — Terry Pratchett
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I… — Joan Didion
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him… — Elizabeth Bishop
The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page. — Debbie Allen
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to… — Ted Koppel
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to… — Alan Shepard
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced… — Philip Roth
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing… — George R. R. Martin
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the… — John Fante
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in… — Dav Pilkey
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than… — Philip Pullman
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of… — Margery Allingham
The fundamental keys to the culture of any organization can only be achieved when everyone is on the same page. — Tony Dungy
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created. — Willa Cather
I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my bill that calls… — Rand Paul
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think… — Akira Kurosawa
I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and… — Isak Dinesen
The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused,… — Heather Mills
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing… — Os Guinness
Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns… — Colin Greenland
Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot… — Rupert Spira
We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such… — Bonnie Friedman
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?… — Jack Heffron

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