Pages Quotes - Page 37

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

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Men, May, Interviews

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• Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

  Florence King

  Book, Home, Cities

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.93, Macmillan

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• I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully developed characters, this novel held me spellbound until the last page. If you read one historical novel this year, make it To Win Her Favor. It will linger with you long after the last page.

  Colleen Coble

  Book, Character, Winning

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• Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

  Sydney Samuelson

  Book, Fire, Tears

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• I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

  Janusz Korczak

  War, Reading, Wells

  Janusz Korczak (1980). “The Ghetto Years, 1939-1942”

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• Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Spy, Outsiders, Believer

  Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”

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• I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.

  Nancy Spain

  Book, Dirty, Eggs

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.

  Nora Waln

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

  Lynn Austin

  Prayer, Scripture, Lifts

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• Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.

  Dorothea Lasky

  Beautiful, Grief, Book

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• So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Nice, Giving, Together

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• I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages.  If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.  I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture.  It has to move all the time... It's not the stage.  A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson.  Their eyes need to be dazzled.  The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.

  Robert Evans

  Moving, Eye, Important

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• I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways that make interior human sense, even when they aren't entirely believable...

  Scott Bradfield

  Feelings, Fiction, Way

  "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.

  Chiara Barzini

  Drama, Believe, Passion

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• The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Thinking, News Stories

  "Transcript: Rush Limbaugh on 'Your World'". "Your World with Neil Cavuto,", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2006.

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

  Dennis Kucinich

  America, Care, Enough

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Made, Novel

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

  Quentin Tarantino

  Hurt, Trying, Months

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

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• As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

  Colm Meaney

  Nice, Crazy, Character

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Phones, Tea, Scripts

  "Luke Pasqualino, Maimie McCoy and Executive Producer Adrian Hodges Talk BBC America’s THE MUSKETEERS, Blending Genres, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2014.

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• In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Emotional, Creating

  "Andy Serkis on Who Sends Him Hate Mail; Why Oscar Should Rethink Animated Category (Q&A)". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 1, 2011.

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• 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.

  Francoise Gilot

  Art, Writing, People

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

  Henry Norman Hudson

  Home, Mean, Culture

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• Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

  Maren Elwood

  Character, Two, Mind

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• In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.

  John Felstiner

  Real, Mean, Writing

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