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I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I… — Peter Matthiessen
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues — Esther Williams
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali
What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep… — Marion Nestle
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant… — Kim Edwards
Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue — Andy Biersack
M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on… — Elizabeth Haydon
The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late… — Lisa McMann
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard… — Rachel Gibson
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book. — Daniel Alarcon
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The… — Unknown Author
I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my… — Mark Lawrence
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where… — Holmes Rolston III
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the… — Tom Rachman
If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of… — Ben Goldacre
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,… — Barbara Johnson
Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration. — Philip Greenspun
The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published… — Philip Greenspun
A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no… — Michael Spiller
How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? — Jack Heffron
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with… — Jack Heffron
A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and… — Leah Cypess
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and… — Joseph Auslander
I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book. — Robert Cormier
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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