Pages Quotes - Page 24

• When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, Writing, Two

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• History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph—I loved every page.

  Tilly Bagshawe

  Romance, Triumph, Plot

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• Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

  Don Paterson

  Shadow, Burning, World

  Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr

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• And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.

  Timothy Findley

  Writing, People, Hatred

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• I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

  Colum McCann

  Character, Rude, Sound

  "Colum McCann: a life in writing" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

  Zoe Kazan

  The End Of The Day, Looks, Half

  "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

  Joe Johnston

  Real, Character, Black And White

  "'Captain America' director: 'This movie is going to surprise some people'". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Romance, Secret, Age

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• I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

  Sara Gruen

  Hate, Writing, Exclusion

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.

  Bonnie Wright

  Drawing, Clay, Mold

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• I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Sports, School, College

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• I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

  Austin Peck

  Real, Reading, Reading The Bible

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• When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

  Guy Picciotto

  Reading, Mind, Mind Reading

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• I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Girl, Moving, Writing

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• I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Real, Two, Giving

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• I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

  Al Seckel

  Wall, Book, Creative

  "Kindle or Kindling?" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2009.

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• Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

  Henry Adams

  Editing, Flesh, Retrospect

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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• Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Running, Book, Writing

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• Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on its flood, you must give yourself rewards. "When I write this chapter, I can call my boyfriend." "When I finish one page more, I can get an ice cream cone." "If I write this section, I'll find a check in the mail."

  Sophy Burnham

  Writing, Ice Cream, Giving

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• You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

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• It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.

  Charlene Li

  Reality, People, Tvs

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

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.93, WaterBrook

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• Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

  Robert Masello

  Moving, Optimistic, Black

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• Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Jodi Lynn Anderson (2013). “Tiger Lily”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

  Joseph Hall

  Environmental, World, Letters

  Joseph Hall (1808). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: Now First Collected. With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, Written by Himself”, p.204

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