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Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking… — Paul Engle
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. — Brian Eno
I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos. — Jimmy Fallon
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in… — James Fenton
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put… — Leslie Fiedler
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out… — Carrie Fisher
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you… — Joshua Foer
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass… — Malcolm Forbes
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to… — Mark Haddon
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and… — E. M. Forster
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an… — Margaret Haddix
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this… — Alexander Hamilton
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think… — Laurell K. Hamilton
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. — Ernest Hemingway
'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper. — John Hawkes
I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held. — Anna Held
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child,… — Tom Hiddleston
Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only… — Etty Hillesum
Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for.… — Tom Hodgkinson
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to… — Aldous Huxley
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from… — David Icke
I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar… — Chris Isaak
It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do… — Michael Jackson
I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it… — Marc Jacobs

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