“I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.” ThinkingSchoolWrittenPagesHigh SchoolScriptsDialogueThirtyLooking BackStaplesWannabes Author:Lorene Scafaria
“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.” FirstsSchoolSportsCareersCollegePaperPagesHigh SchoolNewspapersEditorsUnusualEditorials Author:Buzz Bissinger
“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.” YearsChildrenStillsEndsSchoolWhiteWrittenPagesResearchPaintFrustrationFortyBangsSlapManiaMaladyForty Years Old Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.” WayWritingSelfRunningAbleSchoolYoungNovelFitTenComputerPagesMovedLengthPensElectricAmazedFountainNotebookTypewritersPretentiousDipMoved OnDiscsProcessorsGambitFountain PensBallpoint Pens Author:Charles de Lint
“At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.” ChildrenI CanBookSchoolHoursEducationStudyPagesFascism Author:Benito Mussolini
“Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn” HeartSchoolTurnsBrainBrokenLessonsPagesBent Author:Andy Partridge
“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsPersonsIdeasCharacterWould BeRunningSchoolMovingLinesPerfectHellKnowingFourProduceTypePagesCapableHundredHigh SchoolDespiseGraduatesTrappedTenseFirst PersonProtagonistsMonologuesGraduating High School Author:Craig Johnson
“We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.” ThinkingBookIdeasShowsSchoolSportsMorningFashionCollegeMajorsNewsPagesHollywoodConservativeRadioNewspapersMagazinesNo IdeaPropagandaTunesProfessorsFoxesDocumentariesPublic SchoolColumnsSitcomEarly MorningFox NewsAdministratorsHollywood MoviesTalk RadioBombardedFashion MagazinesEtceteraCollege Professors Author:Ann Coulter
“I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.” FirstsChildrenBookSchoolSubjectsMetsPagesRaysCrystals Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin