Page Quotes
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave 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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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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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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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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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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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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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.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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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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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what’s left.
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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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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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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.
