Best Pages Qoutes
2126 Pages quotes by 1519 unique authors
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is…
— Edward Abbey
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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
— Julian Barnes
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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
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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
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that…
— Booker T. Washington
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It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from…
— Carl Jung
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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
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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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
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The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.
— Debbie Allen
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In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the…
— Mitt Romney
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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
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The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14…
— John Grisham
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.
— John Fante
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Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred…
— Mark Helprin
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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
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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
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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
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The fundamental keys to the culture of any organization can only be achieved when everyone is on the same page.
— Tony Dungy
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The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would…
— David Byrne
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.
— Willa Cather
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