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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 on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, People, Diaries

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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• 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 a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Wind, Mutiny

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• 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 forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

  Mike Royko

  Thinking, Views, Years

  "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• 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 limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Writing, Lasts

  "Conversation: Alberto Manguel". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 19, 2010.

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• 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 call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

  Joseph Epstein

  Class, Style, May

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• 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

  People, Funny People, Knows

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• 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 an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Latin, Book

  "Evaristo Carriego" by Jorge Luis Borges, (Ch. 3), 1930.

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• 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

  Writing, Trying, Plot

  Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

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• Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Yesterday, Today

  "Author Ernest Gaines comes home to where his ancestors were enslaved" by Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2010.

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• 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 author.

  Martin Amis

  Character, Mind, Stories

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.319, Vintage

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• Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Six, Sometimes

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• 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 authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

  John Lahr

  Writing, Mean, Self

  "Reality Checks" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 31, 2010.

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• 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

  Writing, Practice, Fool

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• 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 gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Book, Writing, Character

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• 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

  Death, Years, Dying

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• America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.

  Barack Obama

  Past, America, Moments

  Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

  Gene Hackman

  Fun, Scripts, Respectful

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• That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Believe, Writing, Doe

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• The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

  Ben Kingsley

  Character, Men, Trying

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• Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

  Sivananda

  Book, Heart, Source

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Reading, Labels, Littles

  "MIT Technology Review" Magazine, July 1996.

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• [Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Book, Looks

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2014

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• It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting. Try also to inculcate in children the habit of chanting and neatly writing the mantra. This will help to improve their handwriting, too. The book in which the mantra is written should not be thrown around; it should be carefully kept in our meditation or shrine room.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Book, Writing

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