“I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.” WantWritingWellsBornNovelWrittenPagesErasNarrativeCollectionsPlotInchesEssaysSonnetScreenplays Author:Julianna Baggott
“Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'” WorldStoriesStreetsCenturyFrontsCitizensPaperNewsPagesRemainsPhonesDrivenErasRoughScandalDemiseHackingThrowbackCitizen KaneFleet Street Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.” WarPagesLegsErasPostsSignificanceGesturesWarhol Author:J. G. Ballard