Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page. — Pippa Evans Copy Share Image
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about… — Matt Charman Copy Share Image
John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him — Alissa York Copy Share Image
I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Story matters. Writing is important. Stories make the world go around. Many things begin as words on a page. It matters to… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A movie can evoke feelings, thoughts, it is all there and happening, there is no control over the images when you are… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
New Rule: I don't give two fingleberries and a McShit-all that Dumbledore is gay. I never wanted to know who Dumbledore was… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
All this is labour which never meets the eye… But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages. — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there… — Gretchen Mol Copy Share Image
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times. — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages. — Mike McCue 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
The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image