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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the… — Edmond Jabes
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi
If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of… — Guy Ritchie
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from… — Helmut Newton
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly… — Robin Wasserman
If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward… — John Fowles
[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through… — Tom Bissell
I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge… — Stephen Fry
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. — Paul Gallico
Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends… — Warren Buffett
Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of… — Peter Tait
There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle. — Nikki Grimes
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — Maya Angelou
Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until… — Stephen Colbert
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue… — Umberto Eco
I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit. — Jakob Dylan
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. — Joseph Heller
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution… — Butch Otter
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take… — Larry Winget
Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right — Tom Robbins
When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity. — Ken McCarthy
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page… — Henning Mankell

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