Few Pages Quotes
31 quotes by 31 authors
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Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a…
— Fritz Zwicky
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Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story…
— Orson Scott Card
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a…
— Andrea Brown
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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as…
— Jeffery Deaver
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of…
— Patricia Briggs
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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
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A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for…
— Terence Rattigan
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To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix…
— David F. Swensen
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in…
— Jack Nance
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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,…
— Gary Shteyngart
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She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her…
— Katie Roiphe
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I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of…
— Gustavo Dudamel
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The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes…
— Sergio Aragones
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You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but…
— Robert Genn
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When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only…
— Woody Harrelson
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In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of…
— Alan Moore
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What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good.…
— Louis Sachar
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