Quotes about Pages

Pages entertain me more than pictures do. Votes: 3

Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Votes: 3

I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages. Votes: 3

Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue Votes: 3

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity. Votes: 3

More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. Votes: 3

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. Votes: 3

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. Votes: 3

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Votes: 2

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire. Votes: 2

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page. Votes: 2

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. Votes: 2

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. Votes: 2

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. Votes: 2

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin. Votes: 2

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. Votes: 2

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. Votes: 2

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. Votes: 2

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. Votes: 2

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. Votes: 2

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. Votes: 2

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit. Votes: 2

It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It's always worked for me. Votes: 2

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" ) Votes: 2

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something. Votes: 2

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. Votes: 2

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story. Votes: 2

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. Votes: 1

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. Votes: 1

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. Votes: 1

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. Votes: 1

The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on. Votes: 1

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Votes: 1

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. Votes: 1

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. Votes: 1

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda. Votes: 1

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded. Votes: 1

I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to bring the world into the pages of 'Vogue.' We do that by tapping into the zeitgeists with our cover subjects. Votes: 1

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate. Votes: 1

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist. Votes: 1

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. Votes: 1

I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.' Votes: 1

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room. Votes: 1

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. Votes: 1

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. Votes: 1

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book. Votes: 1

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. Votes: 1

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more. Votes: 1

Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater? Votes: 1

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. Votes: 1

I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages. Votes: 1

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. Votes: 1

Never use pages for personal brand! Votes: 0

Blank pages inspire me with terror. Votes: 0

Life happened because I turned the pages. Votes: 0

It takes ages to turn my pages Votes: 0

I should be concentrating on writing pages. Votes: 0

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello. Votes: 0

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages. Votes: 0

Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere. Votes: 0

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything, Votes: 0

Never write more than two pages on any subject. Votes: 0

Store windows are like landing pages on the website. Votes: 0

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. Votes: 0

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog. Votes: 0

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages. Votes: 0

You are a shelf of books without the pages. Votes: 0

How many pages will it take to tell your story? Votes: 0

A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages Votes: 0

I live in paradise within the pages of a book. Votes: 0

There's me in every character I put on the pages. Votes: 0

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude. Votes: 0

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America. Votes: 0

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks. Votes: 0

...she made her home in between the pages of books. Votes: 0

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise. Votes: 0

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. Votes: 0

A lot of feature films do two pages a day. Votes: 0

A novel is a book with a lot of pages. Votes: 0

I am well versed in reading the pages of war. Votes: 0

Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words Votes: 0

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages. Votes: 0

She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages. Votes: 0

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. Votes: 0

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser. Votes: 0

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. Votes: 0

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. Votes: 0

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. Votes: 0

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating Votes: 0

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head... Votes: 0

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered. Votes: 0

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word. Votes: 0

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book? Votes: 0

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages Votes: 0

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership. Votes: 0

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime Votes: 0

You have 365 new blank pages. What will you write on first blank page? Votes: 0

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet. Votes: 0

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets. Votes: 0

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail. Votes: 0

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! Votes: 0

I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied. Votes: 0

Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us. Votes: 0

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. Votes: 0

The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar. Votes: 0

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality. Votes: 0

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten Votes: 0

After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him. Votes: 0

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book. Votes: 0

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. Votes: 0

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. Votes: 0

Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! Votes: 0

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. Votes: 0

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. Votes: 0

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. Votes: 0

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty. Votes: 0

I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages. Votes: 0

It is better to get lost in the pages of book than anywhere else. Votes: 0

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Votes: 0

Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life Votes: 0

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life. Votes: 0

Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages? Votes: 0

Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages. Votes: 0

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages. Votes: 0

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. Votes: 0

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. Votes: 0

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight. Votes: 0

Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles. Votes: 0

You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind. Votes: 0

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny. Votes: 0

What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books. Votes: 0

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Votes: 0

I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book. Votes: 0

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that. Votes: 0

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. Votes: 0

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages Votes: 0

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships. Votes: 0

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. Votes: 0

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank. Votes: 0

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. Votes: 0

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) Votes: 0

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. Votes: 0

I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned Votes: 0

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. Votes: 0

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine. Votes: 0

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ... Votes: 0

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. Votes: 0

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. Votes: 0

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages. Votes: 0

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books. Votes: 0

Fresh, fun and oh-so-romantic, WILD HEARTS had me galloping through the pages. I absolutely loved it. Votes: 0

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. Votes: 0

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out. Votes: 0

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open. Votes: 0

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history. Votes: 0

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since. Votes: 0

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. Votes: 0

Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed... Votes: 0

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. Votes: 0

Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead. Votes: 0

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning. Votes: 0

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. Votes: 0

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases. Votes: 0

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages. Votes: 0

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night. Votes: 0

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read. Votes: 0

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it. Votes: 0

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. Votes: 0

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. Votes: 0

The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it. Votes: 0

I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not. Votes: 0

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end. Votes: 0

She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. Votes: 0

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times. Votes: 0

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup. Votes: 0

How many pages are there in my life?? I've read only a prologue.. But personally it's exciting already. Votes: 0

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures. Votes: 0

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody. Votes: 0

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew. Votes: 0

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.' Votes: 0

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country. Votes: 0

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. Votes: 0

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. Votes: 0

The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages. Votes: 0

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. Votes: 0

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Votes: 0

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. Votes: 0

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. Votes: 0

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web. Votes: 0

History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? Votes: 0

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. Votes: 0

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. Votes: 0

Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power. Votes: 0

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted. Votes: 0

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. Votes: 0

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. Votes: 0

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning. Votes: 0

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed? Votes: 0

I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. Votes: 0

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages. Votes: 0

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages. Votes: 0

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea. Votes: 0

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind. Votes: 0

I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it. Votes: 0

If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide. Votes: 0

You can increase conversion rates and return on investment (ROI) by several times by making PPC landing pages extremely relevant. Votes: 0

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count. Votes: 0

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. Votes: 0

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me. Votes: 0

Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book! Votes: 0

Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages. Votes: 0

Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you. Votes: 0

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. Votes: 0

Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery. Votes: 0

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. Votes: 0

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one. Votes: 0

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. Votes: 0

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. Votes: 0

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way. Votes: 0

My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot. Votes: 0

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. Votes: 0

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away. Votes: 0

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. Votes: 0

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn. Votes: 0

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Votes: 0

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women. Votes: 0

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. Votes: 0

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. Votes: 0

It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax. Votes: 0

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. Votes: 0

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals. Votes: 0

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. Votes: 0

i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages Votes: 0

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust. Votes: 0

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages. Votes: 0

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages. Votes: 0

I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious. Votes: 0

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change. Votes: 0

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read. Votes: 0

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. Votes: 0

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. Votes: 0

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank. Votes: 0

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat. Votes: 0

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot. Votes: 0

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it. Votes: 0

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny! Votes: 0

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned. Votes: 0

If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse. Votes: 0

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. Votes: 0

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are "“ but not web pages. Votes: 0

I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment. Votes: 0

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. Votes: 0

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. Votes: 0

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once"¦ Votes: 0

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. Votes: 0

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation. Votes: 0

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. Votes: 0

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading. Votes: 0

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? Votes: 0

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines. Votes: 0

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. Votes: 0

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. Votes: 0

I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages. Votes: 0

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. Votes: 0

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country. Votes: 0

I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always." Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. Votes: 0

Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express. Votes: 0

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. Votes: 0

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process. Votes: 0

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . Votes: 0

It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good. Votes: 0

When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!" Votes: 0

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. Votes: 0

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive. Votes: 0

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere. Votes: 0

For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound. Votes: 0

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room. Votes: 0

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night. Votes: 0

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses. Votes: 0

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages. Votes: 0

It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination. Votes: 0

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. Votes: 0

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. Votes: 0

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays. Votes: 0

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. Votes: 0

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. Votes: 0

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. Votes: 0

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. Votes: 0

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. Votes: 0

If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working. Votes: 0

Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in. Votes: 0

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces. Votes: 0

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. Votes: 0

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel. Votes: 0

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. Votes: 0

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on. Votes: 0

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. Votes: 0

The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy. Votes: 0

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied. Votes: 0

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is. Votes: 0

No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly. Votes: 0

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying. Votes: 0

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'. Votes: 0

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out. Votes: 0

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain Votes: 0

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Votes: 0

The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,these melancholy pages speak;say, gracious lady, shall she failTo draw the tear a down from thy cheek? Votes: 0

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. Votes: 0

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine. Votes: 0

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. Votes: 0

But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger. Votes: 0

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along. Votes: 0

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live. Votes: 0

The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather. Votes: 0

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name. Votes: 0

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. Votes: 0

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages. Votes: 0

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction. Votes: 0

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible. Votes: 0

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights. Votes: 0

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. Votes: 0

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. Votes: 0

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. Votes: 0

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. Votes: 0

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print Votes: 0

We will paste upon the curled pages wordsLike charming and romantic and sentimentalForgetting that charming is witchcraftRomantic is loveAnd sentiment is what makes us human Votes: 0

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked. Votes: 0

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things. Votes: 0

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. Votes: 0

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west. Votes: 0

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours. Votes: 0

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that. Votes: 0

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages Votes: 0

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art. Votes: 0

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life. Votes: 0

Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work. Votes: 0

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later. Votes: 0

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality. Votes: 0

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own. Votes: 0

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight. Votes: 0

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages. Votes: 0

To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once. Votes: 0

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation. Votes: 0

Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. Votes: 0

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung. Votes: 0

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. Votes: 0

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history. Votes: 0

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things. Votes: 0

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. Votes: 0

A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts, Votes: 0

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me. Votes: 0

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages. Votes: 0

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story. Votes: 0

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. Votes: 0

As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist. Votes: 0

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. Votes: 0

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor. Votes: 0

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages. Votes: 0

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that? Votes: 0

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general. Votes: 0

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully. Votes: 0

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. Votes: 0

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages. Votes: 0

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes. Votes: 0

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids? Votes: 0

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. Votes: 0

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin. Votes: 0

Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake. Votes: 0

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Votes: 0

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. Votes: 0

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. Votes: 0

Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered Votes: 0

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended. Votes: 0

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages? Votes: 0

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do. Votes: 0

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn Votes: 0

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry Votes: 0

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. Votes: 0

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired. Votes: 0

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.' Votes: 0

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life. Votes: 0

In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books. Votes: 0

Truths are dangerous," he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear. Votes: 0

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring. Votes: 0

These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth. Votes: 0

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. Votes: 0

I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel. Votes: 0

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out? Votes: 0

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word. Votes: 0

You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages. Votes: 0

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel. Votes: 0

The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison. Votes: 0

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. Votes: 0

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it. Votes: 0

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. Votes: 0

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying. Votes: 0

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. Votes: 0

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things. Votes: 0

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital. Votes: 0

With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word. Votes: 0

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about. Votes: 0

Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get. Votes: 0

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. Votes: 0

Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. Votes: 0

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely. Votes: 0

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it. Votes: 0

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary. Votes: 0

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action. Votes: 0

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone. Votes: 0

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages. Votes: 0

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change. Votes: 0

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head. Votes: 0

A 'lewk' is like, 'I'm wearing a lewk today,' it's something that everybody will notice. It's like you're out of the pages of a magazine, that's a lewk. Votes: 0

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones... Votes: 0

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again. Votes: 0

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. Votes: 0

I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye. Votes: 0

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level. Votes: 0

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book. Votes: 0

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year. Votes: 0

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. Votes: 0

I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition. Votes: 0

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.' Votes: 0

You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain Votes: 0

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters. Votes: 0

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done. Votes: 0

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press. Votes: 0

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. Votes: 0

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. And scissors - that's beyond the pale. Votes: 0

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns. Votes: 0

As I get older, I'm finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that, I have no idea what they do. Votes: 0

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure. Votes: 0

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. Votes: 0

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime. Votes: 0

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay. Votes: 0

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic. Votes: 0

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. Votes: 0

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all. Votes: 0

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be. Votes: 0

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on. Votes: 0

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true"”without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see? Votes: 0

Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error. Votes: 0

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood. Votes: 0

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends. Votes: 0

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story. Votes: 0

It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf. Votes: 0

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M. Votes: 0

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.' Votes: 0

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. Votes: 0

To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you. Votes: 0

I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages. Votes: 0

I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging. Votes: 0

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days. Votes: 0

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build. Votes: 0

I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book! Votes: 0

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in. Votes: 0

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. Votes: 0

It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper. Votes: 0

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together. Votes: 0

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you. Votes: 0

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. Votes: 0

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever. Votes: 0

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. Votes: 0

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me. Votes: 0

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating. Votes: 0

I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills. Votes: 0

In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write. Votes: 0

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him? Votes: 0

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50. Votes: 0

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening. Votes: 0

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. Votes: 0

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. Votes: 0

I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life." Votes: 0

You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it. Votes: 0

My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it. Votes: 0

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly. Votes: 0

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C. Votes: 0

If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor. Votes: 0

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was. Votes: 0

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore. Votes: 0

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go. Votes: 0

I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me. Votes: 0