Pages Quotes - Page 28

• Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

  Debby Ryan

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Writing, Heart, Eight

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• I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

  David S. Goyer

  Three, Four, Scripts

  "David S. Goyer Talks His Involvement with GODZILLA and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

  Abdul Kalam

  Life Is, Position, Humans

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• Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

  Chauncey Depew

  Drama, Names, Would Be

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Oration and memorial addresses”

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• I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Tears, Balls, Potters

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• "Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, Military, War

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.

  Dani Shapiro

  Notebook, Feelings

  "Dani Shapiro: 7 Places Where Your Pain Hides" by Dani Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reading, Numbers, People

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• In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.

  William Francis Henry King

  Light, Fine, Wells

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• It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Food, Book, Giving

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• The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

  Terry Brooks

  Character, Four, Want

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• You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

  Harry S. Truman

  Judgment, Newspapers, Form

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Six, Hello

  Ernest Hemingway, James A. Michener (1986). “The dangerous summer”, Scribner Book Company

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• Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Cutting

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.216, Random House

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• My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Numbers, Literature

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• When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

  Brody Dalle

  Book, Firsts, First Time

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• It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Wind, Bottles

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.314, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.

  Barack Obama

  Numbers, Embodiment, Budgets

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• The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Wind, Mutiny

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• Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

  Mike Royko

  Thinking, Views, Years

  "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

  Joseph Epstein

  Class, Style, May

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

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Funny People, Knows

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• Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Yesterday, Today

  "Author Ernest Gaines comes home to where his ancestors were enslaved" by Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2010.

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