Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'
It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.
I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.
The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.
On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.
I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.
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.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.
Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
When I was growing up, 'Ebony Magazine' was a must read in our household. In those pages I found our news, our stories, and my pride.
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.
I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.
I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.
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I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.
My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.
A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined.
The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.
I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
You know what I love about Haruki Murakami's books? He's so easy to read. You get three pages in and you have to finish the whole thing.
There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.
When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
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