Pages Quotes - Page 35

• To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Hands, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• There are two angels that attend unseen
  Each one of us, and in great books record
  Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down
  The good ones, after every action closes
  His volume, and ascends with it to God.
  The other keeps his dreadful day-book open
  Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,
  The record of the action fades away,
  And leaves a line of white across the page.
  Now if my act be good, as I believe it,
  It cannot be recalled. It is already
  Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.
  The rest is yours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Believe, Sunset

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, Etc”, p.388

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• The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

  Judith Krantz

  Writing, Giving, Trying

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• One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.

  May Sarton

  Forever, Done, Goes On

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• Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beach, Reading, Eye

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• it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Drinking, Odds, Boredom

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• Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

  Clifford Stoll

  Real, Book, Way

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• Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with secrets. This tight, terrific tale had me turning pages all night long.

  Judy Blundell

  Night, Islands, Long

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• I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.

  Twyla Tharp

  Years, Firsts, Notes

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

  Rebecca West

  Weeping Willows, Narrative, Married

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.118, Open Road Media

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• It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Character

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• Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.

  Fay Weldon

  Space, Giving, Poetry

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.231, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.

  Joan Didion

  Needs, Done, Afternoon

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71". Interview with Linda Kuehl, www.theparisreview.org. 1978.

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.

  Rand Paul

  Nsa, People, Aftermath

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

  Jane Fonda

  Writing, Scary, Up To You

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Hands, May

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

  Neil Simon

  Notebook, Writing, Play

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.

  Neil Simon

  Hands, Needs, Use

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• 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.

  Charlie Huston

  Hard Work, Skills, Want

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• I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.

  Jack Barakat

  Talking, Networking, Labels

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to sound to someone when you're saying it out loud. Which is different from when you're writing it on the page. That toolbox becomes how does this look visually on the page, how does this read among pages, how is this in relation to poems that are before it or after it. I don't think one is better or more successful than the other. You've just gotta think about "what are the tools I'm using, and how are they most effective in this form?"

  Phil Kay

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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• What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.

  Chris Paul

  Book, Player, Trying

  Source: www.ign.com

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• It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.

  Mary Harron

  Gay, Men, Interesting

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

  Mary Harron

  Gay, Irony, Wonder

  Source: susiebright.blogs.com

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