Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

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

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• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

  

  Irving Penn
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Just

• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Day

• Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Done

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Want
  • End
  • Page

• Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Me
  • Doing
  • Page

• I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Scary

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

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Freedom
  • Enjoy
  • Page

• I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Find

• Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Page

• Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Experience
  • First
  • Page

• I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Great
  • Think
  • Page

• I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Page

• To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Page

• Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • Past
  • Problems
  • Page

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

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Early
  • Page

• It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Christian
  • Victim
  • Hinduism

• If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Live
  • Night
  • Me

• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

  

  Brassaï
  • Camera

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

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
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