“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.” DifferentEnoughArtistEasyHistoryStylePaintingSeriousPeriodsPagesTrainingAddHistoricalContributionMaking History Author:Liu Dan
“Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.” IfsBookProblemFictionSeriousPagesProvidingNon Fiction Author:James W. Loewen
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.” FormDesireReadingOpportunitySocialSubjectsSeriousReaderActivityMembersPagesEmbraceIntenseIntimateHalfwayIndicationSexuallyFamily MembersEntwined Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward
“I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted. Kel eyed her friend. "You do look yellow around the edges," she told him, her face quite serious. "I hadn’t wanted to bring it up." "We daffodils like to have things brought up," Neal said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "It reminds us of spring.” LooksSaidWantedFacesGrowingChangedSeriousArmsPagesSpringEdgesShouldersYellowResemblanceDaffodil Book:Protector of the Small Quartet Source: Protector of the Small Quartet
“I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.” FirstsLastsAnswersSeriousPagesPaige Book:The Starlight Crystal Source: The Starlight Crystal
“For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.” MenWellsSeemsTodayFirePlanetsSeriousBattlePagesMen And WomenRainIntelligentDialogueNoiseProseEndeavorIntelligent Man Author:John Cheever