“I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.” WritingStillsBookCharacterCareFacesMorningWeekPagesSevenIncludingGet UpEvery MorningBlankSeven DaysBlank Pages Author:Dan Brown
“Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.” CuttingMaterialsThousandPagesIncludingNakedLunchTrilogiesNovas Author:William S. Burroughs
“There's a Russia angle to all this, because remember, we don't have Donald Trump's tax returns. He did a very - relative summary, 104 page campaign financial disclosure. One year of tax returns, reportedly - we've seen the pictures, 12,000 pages. And tax returns are replete with his foreign interests, including, perhaps, his Russian interests. That may be the reason he doesn't want to turn over his taxes.” WantYearsMayReasonRememberTurnsInterestReturnTrumpTaxesPagesIncludingFinancialCampaignsRussiaRelativeAngleDisclosureSummaryTax Returns Author:Norman L. Eisen
“I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.” ThinkingWritingMeanPersonsBookVoicePoetPagesConsciousLibraryIncluding Author:Adrienne Rich
“If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make these actually-existing people, including the actually-existing person with my name, into a believable person on the page. And that requires distance. That requires not being right up against the events you're talking about.” PeopleIfsWantWritingPersonsStoriesNamesTalkingNovelEventsPagesDrawsDistanceIncludingBelievable Author:Salman Rushdie
“Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.” Has BeensWholeRevolutionIndustryInternetPagesModelsMachinesIncludingInventionDigitalYellowEnginesTelephonesDistributionSteamBusiness ModelsFaxSteam EnginesDigital RevolutionFax Machines Author:John Sununu
“The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.” HumansChurchPrideHorrorDespairPagesNotesIncludingRevengeLustRangeExistentialWrathHuman ExperienceBassIncompetenceChoirTenorsChurch Choir Author:Connie Willis
“over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62” KnowsLeftForgetBehindsKindnessPagesIncludingOfferingCan NotLeft BehindLoving Kindness Author:Sharon Salzberg