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And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

He has a real sense of fun and was teasing me off the bat. I think he called me 'Sure Shot Bob.' When I managed to wade through two and a half pages of virtual monologue on the first take without any crash and burn, he was teasing me.

I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.

What we've got going on is an unfair characterization that we can't defend against. I mean, they're pulling out three sentences of thousands of pages of cross-examination.

We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.