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The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings… — Stephen King
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. — Philip Roth
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come… — Gerald Brenan
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the… — Stephen King
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write… — Eric Partridge
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses. — Margaret Bourke-White
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy… — Unknown Author
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature. — H. A. L. Fisher
Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead. — Paula White
Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your… — Gordon Ramsay
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition… — John Maynard Keynes
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it… — Annie Dillard
You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible… — Dave Barry
I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and… — John Conyers
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. — Hosea Ballou
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it. — Bob Dylan
I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single… — David Massengill
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to… — Ani DiFranco

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