“I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.” ThinkingDifferentAbleFacesNamesBitsCasesPiecesPleasePagesMagazinesEquipmentComes And Goes Author:Geddy Lee
“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.” WayWantGivingWritingLittlesMomentsTogetherCoursesInterestingLaughingPiecesMysteryStreetsReaderPagesSurpriseInsightObservationOne WayPlotTendernessPayoff Author:Christopher Bollen
“Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even - "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.” AbleReadingPiecesAirWorstReaderPagesThirdsFaithfulCommentEducateSystematicFrostHaving HopeAtticsHomelyRefutationLaconic Author:Randall Jarrell
“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.” BookLightSongBlackBehindsExistenceDarknessFirePiecesBuildingWindPagesShotsEmptyMovedFilledNotesStormEveningDesertStillnessAshesTruestDeliberationCadenceFlareSwirlsDaintyUnread BooksPrancing Book:Frost and Fire Source: Frost and Fire
“I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.” KnowsBookLanguageBitsCitiesPathPiecesStreetsPagesHundredSevenCertaintyIntimacyBits And Pieces Book:Selected Non-fictions Source: Selected Non-fictions
“Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.” LongImportantBookStoriesLastsBeautifulSleepLevelsNovelPiecesWrittenMysteryCircumstancesPagesLove StoryProseGuaranteesConsiderationTragicCompellingEdenWhimSleeping InCallousNicoleThis Is A Book Author:William Kent Krueger
“I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.” PiecesInformationPagesPhotographNewspapersPrintedIrresistibleHookedStumblingSerendipity Author:Jill Abramson
“Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.” CharacterStrongPiecesWrittenPagesShiningColorfulBurstingShine On Author:Bernice L. McFadden
“I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.” WritingDifferentMatterSocialFeltIssuesPiecesFindingsPagesPoetry IsSongwritingSocial IssuesStrengtheningWriting Poetry Author:PJ Harvey
“Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.” ArtHandsArtistPiecesPagesGrassNew LifeGorgeousTransformingIllustrationLeaves Of GrassBreathtakingCenterpieces Author:Maria Popova
“My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways to, literally, throw myself into my environment. They were photographs not of an activity, but through an activity; the activity (once I planted a camera in the instrument of that activity - once I, simply, held a camera in my hands) could produce a picture.” WayFirstsArtRealHandsSpaceEnvironmentPiecesProduceActivityPagesCamerasInstrumentsPhotograph Author:Vito Acconci
“Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different.” IfsWayMayBookDifferentPlayLyingSoundBlackVoicePiecesHeardAirReaderMusicianPagesLettersMarkMusicalScoreInterpretationFrozenAlphabetViolinist Author:Margaret Atwood
“Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in a moment for as long as you want. Poetry is about metaphor, about a thing standing in for something else. It's the thing that opens out to something else. What that something else is changes for readers. So what's on the page - it falls away.” IfsWantWritingLongMomentsWould BeFallPiecesReaderPagesStandingAskingMetaphorPoetry IsEssays Author:Claudia Rankine
“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.” MindArtUseActionCertainFocusPiecesEmotionalFitPagesAdvantageStonesExcitingPressureComplexesSatisfactionComplicatedSuspectsWorks Of ArtPassagesJuiceSculptorsChipping Away Author:James Vance
“If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.” IfsKnowsNeedsBookPurposeReadingStuffSpaceWhitePiecesWrittenProjectsPagesStonesSentencesAcceptedCrapPrintedSpoken WordAnthologyPrinted WordWhite SpaceProsody Author:Richard Meltzer
“I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go through all the stuff and the initial reaction of gut and how it makes me feel and I'll sort of go from there and start pulling my favourite pieces of my lyrics and that will be a very literal word collage and from there I'll sculpt it for and whatever reason the song sort of presents itself. It's a bizarre process.” IfsFeelsWritingReasonSongStuffProcessPiecesPagesTrackReactionsGutsFavouritePullingBizarreInitialsMaxLiteralCollages Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.” YearsNightVoiceSilencePiecesHeardCryBrokenBabyPaperPagesScriptureProphetTestamentNew TestamentOld TestamentOne PieceMatthew Author:Louie Giglio
“Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.” IfsStillsAbleSoundReligiousPiecesImagineColorPagesUniqueSingingRootsWindowGlassesPatternsSmellBrandsDevicesBottlesTornIconsCoca ColaStained GlassStained Glass WindowsShards Of Glass Author:Martin Lindstrom
“In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.” IfsSeemsFilmAudiencePiecesReaderPagesSpeedChecksDialoguePaceEchoesFlip Author:Alan Moore
“In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.” CountryCareAbleAmericaOrderCompanyVisionEconomyPiecesActivityPagesGreenBunchHealth CareMealsRegulationGreen Economy Author:Jack Welch
“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.” KnowsWellsHas BeensTwoIdeasSelfEnoughMomentsLightEyeSufferingTurnsThreeMy OwnFiveToo MuchPiecesFourPaperPagesMouthsShadowMoodTeethFirmNosesConfusedThrownSquaresPlasticKnow MeAngleWrinklesRippleMultiplicity Book:The Tent Source: The Tent
“I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.” PeopleWritingMayHateWhitePiecesPaperPagesStartingAgentsFooled Author:Aaron Sorkin
“When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin. -- Mr. Magorium” KnowsStoriesDiesTurnsNextAsksLiteratureFivePiecesWrittenKingsPagesAskingFinalsLeavingMetaphorBrilliantDramaticDo You KnowInfluentialLearCulminationFinal WordsFanfare Author:Suzanne Weyn
“That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.” HeartMadeSometimesFactsHandsNaturalWonderPiecesCenturyTearsPagesToolsRemainsMovedFilledEndureAncientHumbleHandleNeglectMakersMuseumsPrimitiveCatastropheMonkMedievalManuscriptsBrevityNamelessCraftsmanPotteryPersiaMistreatmentPompeii Author:Susan Vreeland
“If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)” IfsPersonsStoriesPiecesShareDangerousPagesShameStormFlyingDebrisWrong Person Author:Brené Brown