“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.” KnowsNeedsLooksBookBigsSpaceImagineWallPagesEmptyMirrorsBoxesOver YouThickElegant Author:Carter Ratcliff
“If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.” IfsWorldWantMatterActorsHugeOfficePagesBoxesAppealsIf I CouldRelevantBox Office Author:Alona Tal
“By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.” WayMorningSawsBedPagesWake UpBoxesVisualsPornographyPathwaysPandoraPandora's Box Author:John Mayer
“It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingPersonsAbleArtistDifficultEnvironmentIndustryNormalPagesBoxesOddsNeed YouConfined Author:Mos Def
“I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.” PagesMarkBoxesUglyDialogueHatedQuotationsNarrationQuotation Marks Author:Catherine Brady
“I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.” WellsLittlesUsedNextBitsMagicHavensCoupleComfortComputerLittle BitPagesBoxesUsed To BeTouchedCopiesNext DayPolishTypewritersRunway Author:Stephen King
“He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages.” WayLongBookHomeFunBedPagesBoxesCornersNosesBrownChocolateCoveredCandySpicesPowderSuitcasesMintFavorite BookBox Of ChocolatesOld Spice Book:House with a Clock in Its Walls / Ghost in the Mirror Flip Book Source: House with a Clock in Its Walls / Ghost in the Mirror Flip Book
“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.” IfsMindFirstsSaidBookHappensReadingMemoriesForeverSawsJourneyPagesSightBoxesThings HappenIceOddNovelistsReading BooksCreamIce CreamPrintedCollectingOdd ThingsInkheart Book:Inkheart Source: Inkheart