Pages Quotes

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Pentateuch.

I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.

I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

You know what I love about Haruki Murakami's books? He's so easy to read. You get three pages in and you have to finish the whole thing.

I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He says it's a hoax .

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”

Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!

The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.

If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill, not once or twice, but until your readers are shivering.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.

You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'

Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.