Pages Quotes - Page 20

Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like “Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn’t a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself”. When you're a ways into it, you're five pages in, 20 pages in, 30 pages in, it seems like one of the more oxymoronic undertakings you could attempt.

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.

Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

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.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

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.

Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

When you're reading a newspaper and you're seeing ads on the page, it's not kind of invasive. Like, it's on the page next to the article. You can look at it or not. You can turn the page when you're ready. On the internet, the ads - many of the ads - just are so controlling. They insist that you see them.

For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.