Pages Quotes

Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her" - Page 165

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.

I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."

I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.

You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.

I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it.

Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

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

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.

If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide.

If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them exist in the same pages or spaces.

I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls. I was four.

Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.

When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.