Pages Quotes - Page 22

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

When you have a full page of well-written dialogue that has a thought process to it, it is pretty easy to memorize. It's a lot easier to memorize than if you're in a scene and other people are talking, and you have maybe one word or one sentence that you have to interject at the right time and in a natural way.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.

Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

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.

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

The printed page was like wine to me.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'