Pages Quotes

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly.

They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent 'post' (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake.

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.