Pages Quotes
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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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A poem should improve on the blank page.
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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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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 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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It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.
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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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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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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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For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.
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When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.
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The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
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Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
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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 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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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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Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.
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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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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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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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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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You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
