To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once.
I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
I do not have a Facebook page, and I do not chat on Twitter. I don't have a web site, even if there are people who have opened one in my name, complete with my photo.
I try to minimize the noise, and I don't use Facebook except for my fan page, and I don't look at anything. It's getting a lot easier.
A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.
For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!
Fame and all that type of stuff is inevitable, but I'm very content having a good band with no negativity, and everyone is on the same page.
My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.
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.
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.
Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.
I think when you work with people who are super exceptional, there's simplicity to it because everybody is on the same page in terms of tone.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.
I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.
This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
Someone once asked me, `How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, `With both hands, of course...'
Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.
Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.
My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.
Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I'd only have a page here or there where I was trying to figure out how to do comics.
I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.
Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.'
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.
I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.
If you don't have that empty white space around everything in the comics, the border of the page, then it feels like you're a little claustrophobic.
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.
I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".
Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.
Speaking with many young people, they act like their virginity is something you have to turn the page very quickly on. "It's done."
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
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