Pages Quotes
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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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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 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 I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.
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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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A poem should improve on the blank page.
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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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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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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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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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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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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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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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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'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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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 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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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
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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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Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.
