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If I get my gun and you pat me on the ass. I'll shoot you." Letty said. (Page 12)

Once upon a time, there had been a seventeen-year-old assassin who had never let anyone get closer to her. Then, with the turning of a page, her story changed forever.

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

LIFE is like a BOOK. Some chapters are SAD, some HAPPY and some are EXCITING. But, if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds.

Life is like a book. Each day is a new page. May your book be a bestseller with adventures to tell, lessons to learn and tales of good deeds to remember.

After all," I said to myself, "possibly the pleasure that its author has found in writing it is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; it may be only an accessory, one that is often to be found superadded to that value, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written yawning.

The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that. And neither should a good story. A good story ought to leave a little grey behind, I think.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

More people fear snakes than full stops, so they recoil when a long sentence comes hissing across the page.

I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it'.

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

What are you reading?" She replied without once taking her eyes off the page. "I am reading the sort of sentimental novel men dismiss as rubbish but could actually stand to learn a thing or two from." "That's an awfully long title," he remarked dryly.

The men's prose spread out on the page, sprawled leisurely like someone having a bath and a shave and then they talked day and night, as though inside them an endless scroll of paper were unraveling out through the mouth.

A written language brings precision, forces ideas into steady shapes, secures against loss. Once the words are on the page they are there to be challenged and embellished by those who come across them later.

I open the windows and let night enter the house, From far off white loneliness settles upon the white page. I am convinced it is an act against white loneliness to say so. from "The Man I Heard Of

Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.

For the sake of a woman's rippling laugh the goddess of history will tomorrow turn a fresh page in her great book.

Descriptions of dreams have a dubious place in storytelling. For these are dreams which have been imagined--'dreamed up', to be slotted in. A story can be made up. How can a dream be made up? By not rising of its own free will from the unconscious it sets a note of falsity, merely illustrating something 'dream-like', which may be why dream descriptions within stories seen curiously meaningless. To avoid glazing over, best then to turn the page quickly.

Life is like an endless book. Each day is a new page and only death can bring the end to this little book of yours.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

In the books inked by scribes, words ran together without any break across every line on every page, in what's now referred to as scriptura continua.

But satire, ever moral, ever new,Delights the reader and instructs him, too.She, if good sense refine her sterling page,Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.