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  • Pages entertain me more than pictures do. -- Amit Kalantri
  • Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. -- Jay Baer
  • I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages. -- Immortal Technique
  • Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue -- Andy Biersack
  • Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. -- Julia Cameron
  • The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy -- Jack Kerouac
  • Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire. -- Geoff Dyer
  • I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page. -- Nora Roberts
  • Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. -- Brad Paisley
  • Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. -- Warren Buffett
  • I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. -- Billy Graham
  • Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin. -- Billy Graham
  • If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. -- Hillary Clinton
  • I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. -- Jack Kerouac
  • He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. -- John Green
  • Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. -- Ellen Hopkins
  • An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. -- Brandon Mull
  • Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. -- Guy de Maupassant
  • Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit. -- Alberto Manguel
  • It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It's always worked for me. -- Merv Griffin
  • Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" ) -- Patricia Polacco
  • First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something. -- T.C. Boyle
  • A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. -- John Steinbeck
  • Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story. -- David Byrne
  • Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. -- Irene Peter
  • Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. -- Andy Warhol
  • Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. -- Barry Goldwater
  • There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. -- David Ogilvy
  • The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on. -- Michel Faber
  • The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. -- Timothy Noah
  • Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. -- Dean Koontz
  • Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. -- Gordon Lightfoot
  • Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda. -- Martin Parr
  • Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded. -- Fritz Zwicky
  • I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to bring the world into the pages of 'Vogue.' We do that by tapping into the zeitgeists with our cover subjects. -- Anna Wintour
  • Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate. -- Mark Cuban
  • Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist. -- Steven Pinker
  • I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. -- Rick Riordan
  • I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.' -- Ice Cube
  • Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room. -- Roseanne Barr
  • And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. -- Jean M. Auel
  • I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. -- Annie Lennox
  • I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book. -- Chris Abani
  • I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. -- Regina Brett
  • I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more. -- Isabel Allende
  • Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater? -- James Patterson
  • The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. -- James Rollins
  • 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. -- Tamora Pierce
  • At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. -- J. G. Ballard
  • Never use pages for personal brand! -- Robert Scoble
  • Blank pages inspire me with terror. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Life happened because I turned the pages. -- Alberto Manguel
  • It takes ages to turn my pages -- Ramazan Ozbay
  • I should be concentrating on writing pages. -- R. L. Stine
  • In six pages, I can't even say "Hello. -- James A. Michener
  • No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere. -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
  • Life passes into pages if it passes into anything, -- James Salter
  • Never write more than two pages on any subject. -- David Ogilvy
  • Store windows are like landing pages on the website. -- Angela Ahrendts
  • Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. -- Sherman Alexie
  • And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog. -- Connie Brockway
  • Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages. -- Alexis De Veaux
  • You are a shelf of books without the pages. -- Gabrielle Aplin
  • How many pages will it take to tell your story? -- Ashly Lorenzana
  • A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages -- J.R. Ward
  • I live in paradise within the pages of a book. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • There's me in every character I put on the pages. -- Jacqueline Woodson
  • In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • 2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America. -- Dennis Kucinich
  • I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks. -- Anne Perry
  • ...she made her home in between the pages of books. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • In the pages of a book, we are in paradise. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. -- James Gould Cozzens
  • A lot of feature films do two pages a day. -- Timothy Bottoms
  • A novel is a book with a lot of pages. -- Kathy Acker
  • I am well versed in reading the pages of war. -- Janusz Korczak
  • Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words -- Rise Against
  • a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages. -- Cornelia Funke
  • She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages. -- Lauren Kate
  • God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. -- Rick Anderson
  • I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser. -- David Baldacci
  • Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. -- Aimee Bender
  • Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. -- Nicole Krauss
  • Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. -- Naomi Ragen
  • It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating -- Sara Paretsky
  • I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head... -- Laurie R. King
  • I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered. -- Steven Wright
  • Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word. -- Robert Littell
  • How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book? -- Lewis Buzbee
  • I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages -- Muhammad Ali
  • If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership. -- Frederick Busch
  • The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime -- Bernard Malamud
  • You have 365 new blank pages. What will you write on first blank page? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet. -- George W. Bush
  • Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets. -- Mary Norris
  • I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail. -- Lily King
  • O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! -- Virginia Woolf
  • I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us. -- Sarah Winman
  • I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. -- Joseph Heller
  • The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar. -- Bob Goff
  • Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality. -- George Crabbe
  • Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten -- Martin Luther
  • After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him. -- David Mitchell
  • I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book. -- Robert Cormier
  • The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. -- Walter Jon Williams
  • Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. -- Cecil B. DeMille
  • Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! -- Algis Budrys
  • The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. -- Viktor Yushchenko
  • Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. -- Neil Gaiman
  • Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. -- Cornelia Funke
  • Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty. -- Blaine Hogan
  • I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages. -- Zachary Gordon
  • It is better to get lost in the pages of book than anywhere else. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. -- Isabel Allende
  • Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life -- Constance Chuks Friday
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