Pages Quotes

Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

We have to hear how [Donald] Trump is the bad guy and Trump poses the problem. And it's just maddening, infuriating. I hear you. I'm totally on the same page with you.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.

For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.

For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.

Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

I love Ellen [Page] like family. And even if we don't hang out all the time, she's still just somebody that always has a place in my heart.

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.