Few Pages Quotes

31 quotes by 31 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Iâ€™ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I donâ€™t want to go on. — Lawrence Block
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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