Page Quotes
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
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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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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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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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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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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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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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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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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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I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
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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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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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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 want to be with you till my last 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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"Tunisia is always ready to turn the page."
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto 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.
