In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I drove past one of the houses in Tiruvanmiyur and asked them if we could shoot there for 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya' because it… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He… — John Green Copy Share Image
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from… — Tayeb Salih Copy Share Image
The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books -… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and… — Glenn Archer Copy Share Image
Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill… — Freddy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world,… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Rob Schneider and… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at… — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is… — Timothy Hallinan Copy Share Image
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down… — John Updike Copy Share Image
