Pages Quotes - Page 40

• Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Hitting, Firsts

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• Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

  Jessye Norman

  Wise, Kindness, Book

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• The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do? It's all in these pages. The Compound Effect is a clear and concise success operation manual!

  John C. Maxwell

  Book, Want, Operations

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• Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Writing, Tonight

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.52, University of Missouri Press

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• The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

  Jules Verne

  Book, Hands, Library

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.127, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Writing, Tired, Feel Good

  "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

  Harper Lee

  Heart, Empty Rooms, Darkness

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Hero, Book

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• I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Children, Book, School

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish guy.

  John Varvatos

  Guy, Mars, Juniors

  "So You Want to Be a Rockstar?". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 5, 2013.

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• You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.

  Bobby V

  Stories, Ends, Turns

  FaceBook post by Bobby V from Sep 02, 2016

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• I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

  Helen Garner

  Dream, Writing, Self

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• The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.

  Lee Smolin

  Notebook, Real, Numbers

  Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

  Jack Welch

  Thinking, Careers, Lasts

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• I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.

  Alexander Payne

  Moving, Book, Wind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, Cameras, Feels

  "Q&a: Neil Degrasse Tyson Talks 'Cosmos,' Dark Energy and Seth Macfarlane". Fox Conference Call Interview, gazette.com. March 05, 2014.

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• I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Character, Kids

  Rick Riordan, James Dashner, Brandon Mull (2014). “The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack”, p.614, Scholastic Inc.

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• The blank page gives us the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Blank

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

  Matthew Pearl

  Real, Book, Literature

  Matthew Pearl (2015). “The Last Bookaneer: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin

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• It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, Bad Day, Giving

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• I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

  Simon Hoggart

  Turkeys, Paris, News

  "Just a bellow - or a roar of public rage?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Luxury, Needs, Six

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2005.

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• What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

  Henry Selick

  Dark, Toys, Add

  "Henry Selick on his 'medium dark' stop-motion movie for Disney" by Rebecca Keegan, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.

  Jerry Robinson

  New York, Character, Years

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• The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Adventure, Night

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