Pages Quotes
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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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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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The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.
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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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A poem should improve on the blank page.
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His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
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Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.
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Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
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I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of paper there and they sit looking at that paper until they've finished or covered at least a number of those pages. No, I'm not like that. I have to be ready. It has to gestate it for quite a while and then it's ready to burst forth.
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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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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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Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
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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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The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
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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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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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Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.
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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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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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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'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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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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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.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
