Page Quotes
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
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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.
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It seems like there was a lot of not being on the same page. It's something we need to get fixed.
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I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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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.
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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.
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Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.
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I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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"Tunisia is always ready to turn the page."
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It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.
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Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
