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I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.
If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58
There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.
I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.
When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.
Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.
Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.
I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
I remember at a very early age ringing up record labels I found in the Yellow Pages, and asking them for a record deal.
Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.
There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.
If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print
Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.
Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.
I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.
I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.
Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.
TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish guy.