Pages Quotes
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Words on the page are never prisoners of the page
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A poem should improve on the blank page.
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When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.
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What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.
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I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
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I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
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It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.
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The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.
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I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
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Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
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All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
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I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.
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Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.
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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
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Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.
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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
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You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
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I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
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I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
