Pages Quotes · Page 37

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down…

— Calvin Trillin

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true…

— Jon Ronson

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely…

— Peter Tait

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion…

— Stephen Malkmus

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

— Susannah Constantine

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd…

— Richard MacDonald

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so…

— Paul Dano

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm…

— R. L. Stine

In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in…

— John Felstiner

Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately,…

— J. J. Abrams

With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be…

— Richard Paul Evans

In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you…

— Sherman Alexie

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily…

— David Byrne

I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I…

— Richelle Mead

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a…

— Douglas Coupland

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was…

— Ruta Sepetys

In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to…

— Thomas Paine

Since most of the action of the war actually happens off the page (offstage), I wanted to give the characters something they…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia…

— Elif Batuman

Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer…

— Philip Kitcher

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

— Christina Baldwin

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

— Mat Johnson

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

— James W. Loewen

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

— Sergio Aragones

There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond…

— Chen-Ning Yang

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the…

— Igor Sikorsky

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your…

— Brad Meltzer

I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

— Labrinth

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

— Ronald Reagan

Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.

— Janet Evanovich

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my…

— Maya Angelou

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my…

— Annie Lennox

I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

— Aidan Chambers