--- title: "7 Thirty Pages Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Thirty Pages quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Thirty Pages sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f2/amy-bloom-4288_alter_short-stories-have-no-net-the-writer-can_1286807.jpg" --- > [Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/short-stories-have-no-net-the-writer-cannot-take-a-leisurely-sixty/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f2/amy-bloom-4288_alter_short-stories-have-no-net-the-writer-can_1286807.jpg) > [When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/when-i-read-biographies-i-skip-the-first-thirty-pages-about-the/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/michael-ondaatje-940_biographies_when-i-read-biographies-i-skip-the-first_1581922.png) > [I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-patchen/i-think-you-will-agree-that-i-am-alive-in-every-part-of-this-book/) [Kenneth Patchen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-patchen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05c/kenneth-patchen-10815_action_i-think-you-will-agree-that-i-am-alive-i_1792695.png) > [“I'm recapitulating...condensing...it's the Readers Digest style...people only have time to read thirty pages...apparently!...maximum!...that's all they have time for! they horse around for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-ferdinand-celine/i-m-recapitulating-condensing-it-s-the-readers-digest-style-people/) [Louis-Ferdinand Céline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-ferdinand-celine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45f/louis-ferdinand-celine-1139_life_i-m-recapitulating-condensing-it-s-the-r_1960919.jpg) > [I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorene-scafaria/i-liked-to-think-i-had-written-scripts-when-i-was-in-high-school-but/) [Lorene Scafaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorene-scafaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e05/lorene-scafaria-24173_communication_i-liked-to-think-i-had-written-scripts-w_2923281.png) > [I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cary-elwes/i-think-that-s-all-you-can-hope-for-as-an-actor-when-you-read-a/) [Cary Elwes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cary-elwes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/401/cary-elwes-18146_actors_i-think-that-s-all-you-can-hope-for-as-a_3058063.png) > [“The last thing Farinoush did on several nights just before she went to bed was to rummage through her cardboard box of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kunal-sen/the-last-thing-farinoush-did-on-several-nights-just-before-she-went/) [Kunal Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kunal-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/kunal-sen-25243_loneliness_the-last-thing-farinoush-did-on-several_3105005.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thirty-pages/#itemlist", "name": "Thirty Pages Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Short stories have no net. 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That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. 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And there he invariably remained, nestled forever between a copy of ‘Jana Aranya’ and ‘The Hours’. She read about thirty pages of his still incomprehensible stage-directions before passing out from exhaustion and hoping that the morning would bring him back to her; yearning to be yanked out of bed by him, devoured by him again. 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