Page Quotes
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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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.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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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.
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
