Pages Quotes

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.

Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

I am due at the page.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

Sometimes that's the hardest thing is to not do anything, but just to trust what's on the page.

Fresh, fun and oh-so-romantic, WILD HEARTS had me galloping through the pages. I absolutely loved it.

She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.

As I get older, I'm finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that, I have no idea what they do.

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.

About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.