Pages Quotes - Page 5

• I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.

  Vaclav Smil

  Book, Reading, Past

  "Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read". Interview with Ritchie King, qz.com. August 08, 2013.

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• Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Skills, Choices

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.

  Bienvenido Lumbera

  Lying, Book, Opportunity

  Bienvenido Lumbera (1984). “Revaluation: essays on Philippine literature, cinema, and popular culture”

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• I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve been looking for when you wander the bookstore aisles, hoping to find something that will grab hold of you and not let go. Eloquent, haunting, and totally enthralling, I was swept in from page one.

  Johanna Edwards

  Girl, Letting Go, Writing

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• Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  Book, World, Clubs

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• If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

  Diane Frolov

  Art, Cat, House

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• With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to find out what happened in the past and what will happen next. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, it is a powerful new work of fiction by an internationally acclaimed writer at the height of his powers.

  Will Schwalbe

  Powerful, Regret, Past

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• Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an older couple bound together by resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from the very first pages and made me wish we had more genre-defying Alaska novels like this one. Inspired by a fairy tale, it nonetheless contains more depth and truth than so many books set in this land of extremes.

  Andromeda Romano-Lax

  Children, Couple, Book

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• The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.

  Betsy Lerner

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• 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.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Book, Blow, Wind

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• I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Different, Care, Too Much

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• The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Fear, Telling The Truth, Impulse

  Jonathan Messinger (2007). “Hiding Out”, p.179, featherproof books

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• Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesn't mean you don't use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted.

  Dorothy Bryant

  Book, Mean, Giving

  "Writing a Novel: Some Hints for Beginners".

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• The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

  Edith Wharton

  Reading, Book, Lovers

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• At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Simple, Ideas, Paper

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• The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..

  Kevin Spacey

  Silly, Giving, Dying

  "Kevin Spacey Speech Urges Broadcast Networks To Adopt Netflix Model At The Edinburgh Television Festival" by Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.

  John Grisham

  Writing, Littles, Way

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• The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Important, Blank

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• The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

  Rebecca Stead

  Writing, Together, Stories

  National Book Foundation's BookUpNYC Interview, www.nationalbook.org.

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• Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Dirty, Sun, Window

  Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004

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• Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loyalty, Logic, Feels

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• Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

  Steve Carell

  Mom, Writing, Anomalies

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• Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Running, Writing, Shopping

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

  Sara Sheridan

  Book, Mind, Entity

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• It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

  Sara Sheridan

  Thinking, Order, People

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