Pages Quotes - Page 2

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads.

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

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.

There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

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.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’