Pages Quotes

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.

Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

I need my trusty Mac laptop to write. I can't work with anything else. I'm used to the feel of the keys. I also like, more than anything else, Apple's Pages.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head.

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil.

A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page.

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

The printed page was like wine to me.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.

When I did my first story for Italian Vogue for Franca Sozzani, she gave me something like 47 full pages, and I was like, That's all? I didn't know any better.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.