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“I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.”

Enough My Own Pages Clever Subconscious Cleverness Egotistical

Author:Winston Graham

“I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.”

Knows My Own Know How Pages Add Wikipedia

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?”

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

“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.”

Mind Heart Book Different Body Life Is Process Imagination My Own Mines Skills Limits Pages Mind And Body Evoke

Book:Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A

Source: Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A

“I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.”

Play Language My Own Seeing Pages Exciting Response Scripts Triggers Printed Flip

Author:Donald Margulies

“With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.”

Years I Can Sometimes Turns My Own Novel Issues Emotional Months Pages Metaphor Enormous Reactions Resolve My Own Life Emotional Reactions

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.”

Source: Up'til Now: A Memoria

“When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.”

Knows Writing Stories Reading Voice My Own Pages

Author:Eudora Welty

“I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my own way of doing things. I've cut it back over the years, but some of the descriptions can still be still pretty dense. So the answer is somewhere between fairly detailed and maybe too detailed. Fortunately, people are seeing the final pages and not my raw script.”

People Way Years Stills Used My Own Answers Cutting Seeing Pages Finals Scripts Details Work Out Description Dense Hedging

Author:James Vance

“Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.”

Ifs Writing May Sometimes Done Feelings Body Reading Realizing My Own Air Cry Husband Pages Relation My Husband Reading Aloud

Author:Julianna Baggott

“I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.”

Years My Own Pages Track Credit

Author:Rob Lowe

“The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.”

Giving Stuff Voice My Own Pages Give Me Bother Blank Blank Pages Voices In My Head

Author:Tim Winton

“Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.”

Source: So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

Inspirational Shows Turns My Own Hero Pages Stations My Own Life House Rules

Author:Charles Dickens

“No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.”

Source: The Tent

“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.”

People Needs Mind Moments Stories Seems My Own Loss Novel Taken Pages Understood Lonely Stranger Absence Ghost Confused That Moment Refuge My Own Life Lonely People

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.”

“I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.”

“I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)”

Want Found My Own Cry Brother Pages Stranger Endless Hated Want Me Slaughter

Author:Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

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