Pages Quotes
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Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
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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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At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
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We have in Valerian a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
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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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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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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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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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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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Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.
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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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Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
