Pages Quotes - Page 10

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

Write a page a day. It will add up.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

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.

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

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 started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.