Pages Quotes - Page 35

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.

Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.

There is no beginning that is a blank page.

Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.

A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.

... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}