Pages Quotes - Page 29

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?

I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.

I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

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.

I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel' -Tana and Aidan-page 23-chapter 3

We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Pentateuch.

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.