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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer… — William Safire
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain… — Ezra Pound
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the… — Chellie Pingree
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than… — Jorge Luis Borges
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page. — Barbara Mertz
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the… — Mark Helprin
When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten… — Jack Gantos
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting… — Sharon Olds
My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted… — Phil Foglio
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of… — Martin Luther
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet. — George W. Bush
Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty. — Blaine Hogan
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going… — Julia Cameron
I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages. — Immortal Technique
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours… — Leslie Fiedler
Sometimes you just have to turn the page to realize there's more to your book of life than the page you're stuck on. Stop being… — Trent Shelton
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class… — Joshilyn Jackson
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page… — Richard MacDonald
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading.… — Jean M. Auel
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark… — Unknown Author
There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room and play a… — Arnold Jacobs
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau

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