Page Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.
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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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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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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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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 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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It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.
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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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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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The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.
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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
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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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There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
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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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There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
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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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Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
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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.
