“The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.” ReadingLinesGreaterMinesPersonalitySkillsPagesAngrySticksComedianRelatableStand Up Comedian Author:Kunal Nayyar
“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.” WritingYearsDreamRememberNextFatherLeftFiveMinesMonthsScenePagesEightTwinsFragments Author:Tamora Pierce
“I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.” LooksMadeLanguageDecisionClassViolenceStreetsMinesPagesDeterminationCrossesThirdsDeterminedWorking Class Book:Trash Source: Trash
“the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine.” MindHeartBookDifferentBodyLife IsProcessImaginationMy OwnMinesSkillsLimitsPagesMind And BodyEvoke Book:Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A Source: Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A
“I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and I started to do installations, that was when writing of mine almost returned to fiction. Earlier I felt like I didn't have anything to write about, I could only concentrate on the page, I could only concentrate on words.” WritingArtFeltFictionMinesPagesPlotInstallation Author:Vito Acconci
“In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.” WritingBookFoundMinesPagesDecidedAgentsClientsWriting A BookManuscriptsAcknowledgmentLiterary Agents Author:Debra Hamel
“Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.” ThinkingMindViewsOpinionMinesPagesYeahPoint Of ViewJournalism Author:Michael Moore
“Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.” WritingFirstsTwoImportantLiteratureDoorsWeekMinesPagesLettersImpressionMessTwo WeeksFirst ImpressionQueriesSales Pitch Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the need, the reaction was overpowering. Leslie looked up. "This one." she said. "I need this one. But the image is more than just tempting art, and it draws her into a world of shadows and desire- into the world of Faerie.” WorldNeedsArtSaidEyeDesireBlackMinesPagesDrawsShadowWingsEdgesLikesReactionsNervesTattooFaerieTemptingOverpoweringBlack EyesLeslie Author:Melissa Marr
“Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.” ForceOpinionMinesPagesMilesClimbingEscapingForces Of NatureSubordinationClimbing Up Author:Lois McMaster Bujold
“I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his. "Right now," Sam said - and I saw that he held the invoice for today's studio time in his hand, folded into a bird with sun-washed wings - "it's hard to imagine that it is raining anewhere in the world." "From Linger, page 258” WorldPersonsSaidHardFactsHandsTodayBoysSunSawsImagineFrontsMinesRight NowPagesBirdRainStandingWingsIncrediblesStudiosImagine ThatOverwhelmed Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever) Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind Like a hardbound brick of win. Story bling. Wanna swipe that thing Cause you see that boy is speeding Right through the book he’s reading. I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading. Wanna curl up with that for ages, All thousand pages. Reviewers tried to warn me. But with that plot you hooked Me like Bradley. Ooh, crack that fat spine. You know I wanna make you mine. This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella.” KnowsI CanBookStoriesBigsKidsAgeLyingReadingWinningNamesCausesWalksBoysMinesWindReaderThousandPagesDenyFatsPlotCracksBricksSpineHookedCurlsReviewersPleadingSpeedingStellaName Of The WindBig BookBling Author:Jim C. Hines