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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head.
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!
Our style, in one word, the Image guys, our approach to the page was bold.
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292
When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.
That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.
Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.
Twitter is your window to relevance , but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web
I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.
My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in.
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.
A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.
The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.
I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.
I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.
Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.
Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
Most people hate that their mum has a Facebook page, but I love that my mum does.
There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
The playmakers need to read the game and need to be on the same page as the defenders and the forwards.
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.
With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.
When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'
A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.
I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.
