Pages Quotes - Page 31

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

I’ve thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.

We have to hear how [Donald] Trump is the bad guy and Trump poses the problem. And it's just maddening, infuriating. I hear you. I'm totally on the same page with you.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!