Pages Quotes
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It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It's always worked for me.
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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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Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
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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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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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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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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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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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Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
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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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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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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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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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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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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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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 way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
