First Page Quotes

45 quotes by 43 authors

• The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19. — Paul Newman
• Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an… — Dakota Fanning
• The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil,… — Pope Francis
• Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino
• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in… — Mary Karr
• About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the… — Lev Grossman
• There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page. — Chen-Ning Yang
• TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and… — Tasha Alexander
• It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The next page would… — Ryan Jarman
• The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard… — Rachel Gibson
• Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion. — Heather Gudenkauf
• I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge… — Stephen Fry
• But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in… — Ramona Koval
• When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page. — Brody Dalle
• Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that… — Lisa Kleypas
• Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come. — William Bolcom
• When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page… — Jane Smiley
• If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for… — Lala Lajpat Rai
• Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. — Mason Cooley
• I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your… — Nora Ephron

Who Wrote These First Page Quotes

43 authors contributed a total of 45 First Page Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 First Page Quotes by William Bolcom
• 1 First Page Quote by Dakota Fanning
• 1 First Page Quote by Kevin Brockmeier
• 1 First Page Quote by Pope Francis
• 1 First Page Quote by James
• 1 First Page Quote by Italo Calvino
• 1 First Page Quote by Simon Travaglia
• 1 First Page Quote by Mary Karr
• 1 First Page Quote by Mickey Spillane
• 1 First Page Quote by Lev Grossman
• 1 First Page Quote by Mariana Fulger
• 1 First Page Quote by Chen-Ning Yang
• 1 First Page Quote by Scooter
• 1 First Page Quote by Tasha Alexander
• 1 First Page Quote by C. JoyBell C.
• 1 First Page Quote by Ryan Jarman
• 1 First Page Quote by Itsme867
• 1 First Page Quote by Rachel Gibson
• 1 First Page Quote by Lars Propst
• 1 First Page Quote by Heather Gudenkauf
• 1 First Page Quote by Tamara Bean
• 1 First Page Quote by Stephen Fry
• 1 First Page Quote by Ramona Koval
• 1 First Page Quote by Brody Dalle
• 1 First Page Quote by Lisa Kleypas