Pages Quotes - Page 30

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

I love Ellen [Page] like family. And even if we don't hang out all the time, she's still just somebody that always has a place in my heart.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.