Page Quotes
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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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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.
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At first glance, you read something on the page and it can seem one way, and you can have your decisions before you wind up on set about what that set is supposed to mean, but until you're actually there doing them, there's really no way to understand it.
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I want to be with you till my last page.
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Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.
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Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.
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Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
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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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Wiki pages are very much free form. Across the whole wiki there is a hypertext structure, but on a given page, within the versatility of your command of your natural language, you can say whatever needs to be said.
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Some memories are made out of the paper, they burn like a high school cigarette. Some leave without a “see you later”. Turn the page and pretty soon you forget. And others are made of concrete, others are made of steel. No, you can’t get away from the way they made you feel.
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Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.
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Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
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I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
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Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.
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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.
