Pages Quotes - Page 9

Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue.. But personally it’s exciting already.

I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. ... But the by-product of such anonymity may be immortality, for women are also less likely to find themselves written up on the obituary page.

Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.

Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.