Pages Quotes

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.

Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.

I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

You know that when you suggest something on the page, it's going to be there, plus more. It's a great luxury to know that you don't have to push it. You just lay it out, and it will be there.

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

I've laid out a very, very detailed immigration plan on my website, tedcruz.org. It's 11 pages of existing federal law and in particular the question of what to do with people who are here now.

For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.

Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.