Pages Quotes - Page 23

• I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• Blank pages inspire me with terror.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Inspire, Blank

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

  Douglas Pagels

  New Year, New Day, Diaries

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• Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

  Douglas Pagels

  Success, New Year, New Day

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• If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

  Thomas Lennon

  Studios, Ifs

  "Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant Interview WRITING MOVIES FOR (FUN AND) PROFIT: HOW WE MADE A BILLION DOLLARS AT THE BOX OFFICE AND YOU CAN, TOO!". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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• 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.

  Ben Mezrich

  Writing, Style, Trying

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• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.

  Randall Munroe

  Long, People, Giving

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• The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.

  Shay Mitchell

  Breakup, Love Is, My Boyfriend

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

  Flavor Flav

  Order, Trying, Flavor

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• All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Book, Character, Past

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• 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.

  H. R. McMaster

  New York, War, College

  "Trump's brilliant choice of McMaster" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2017.

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• I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

  Cliff Stearns

  Children, People, Computer

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• Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

  Joan Didion

  Twenties, Needs, Fifty

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1". Interview with Hilton Als, www.theparisreview.org. 2006.

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• Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

  Katherine Paterson

  Reading, Imagination, Creative

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• Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Sky, Tree, Pavement

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Motherless Brooklyn”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.

  Hayden Carruth

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

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

  Gregory Maguire

  Book, Writing, Lasts

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• Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.

  Carolina Herrera

  Book, People, Agendas

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• There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Hegel, Hume

  "Schopenhauer: A Biography" by David E. Cartwright, Cambridge University Press, (p. 177), March 29, 2010.

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• We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

  Sergey Brin

  People, Equal, Notion

  Lecture at UC Berkeley, California, October 05, 2005.

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• I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we're so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.

  Martin Heinrich

  Party, Hard Times, Thinking

  "Heinrich Does Not Shy From Voting Record". Interview with Erin McPike, Scott Conroy, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 14, 2010.

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• Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

  Clara Shih

  Fortune, Company, Facebook Page

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• A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.

  Ja Rule

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

  William Bolcom

  Firsts, Knows

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• When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Delight, Firsts

  "The good companions" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2006.

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