#page

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #caught #changing #characters #fiction

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#doing #hit #i #last #love

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#give #menu #metaphysics #page #restaurant

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#day #decided #development #four #i

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis. ↗

— John Pomfret

#china #city #front #grew #i

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#got #his #home #know #never

Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest. ↗

— Katie Price

#interested #me #men #money #only

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#ask #back #buried #charges #comes