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If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most… — Patricia Hampl
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance… — Stephen Graham Jones
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. — Max Barry
The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author… — Sid Fleischman
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush… — Nancy Pearl
Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us. — Sarah Winman
I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves. — Harriet Doerr
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. — Naomi Ragen
There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on. — Zayn Malik
One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes,… — Philip K. Jason
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a… — Elif Batuman
Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion. — Heather Gudenkauf
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the… — David Almond
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a… — Cory Doctorow
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful… — Claude Debussy
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page… — Eudora Welty
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. — Wally Lamb
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. — Tahereh Mafi
Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box… — J. J. Abrams
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do… — Bill Moyers
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at… — Albert Einstein
How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without… — T.L. Osborn
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
Although logging workouts seems to be a very simple action, it is often forgotten. Once several days go by, it is hard to remember what… — Xeno Muller

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