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The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts… — Helen Fielding
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see… — Herman Wouk
Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more… — Mike Royko
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in… — Alberto Manguel
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be… — Joseph Epstein
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page. — Calvin Trillin
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline. — Ernest Gaines
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the… — Martin Amis
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item. — Jay McInerney
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the… — John Lahr
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page. — Natalie Goldberg
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her… — William Least Heat-Moon
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own. — Alfred Kazin
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past. — Barack Obama
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories. — Jonah Lehrer
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name,… — Norman MacCaig
Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films… — Connie Nielsen
The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine,… — Kunal Nayyar
I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the… — Bruce Oldfield
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its… — Daniel Okrent
I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely. — Haley Joel Osment

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