Pages Quotes - Page 8

• Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Done, Happened

  Alaa Al Aswany (2004). “The Yacoubian Building”, p.192, I.B.Tauris

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• I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve been looking for when you wander the bookstore aisles, hoping to find something that will grab hold of you and not let go. Eloquent, haunting, and totally enthralling, I was swept in from page one.

  Johanna Edwards

  Girl, Letting Go, Writing

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• Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  Book, World, Clubs

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• The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..

  Kevin Spacey

  Silly, Giving, Dying

  "Kevin Spacey Speech Urges Broadcast Networks To Adopt Netflix Model At The Edinburgh Television Festival" by Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Different, Care, Too Much

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• The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Fear, Telling The Truth, Impulse

  Jonathan Messinger (2007). “Hiding Out”, p.179, featherproof books

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• I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Character, Land, Smell

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• At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Simple, Ideas, Paper

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• The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

  Rebecca Stead

  Writing, Together, Stories

  National Book Foundation's BookUpNYC Interview, www.nationalbook.org.

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• Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Dirty, Sun, Window

  Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004

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• Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Running, Writing, Shopping

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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 most fertile genius to say only what is new, would be to contract his volumes to a few pages. Yet, surely, there ought to be some bounds to repetition; libraries ought no more to be heaped for ever with the same thoughts differently expressed, than with the same books differently decorated.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned

  Carrie Underwood

  Life Lesson, Grateful, Bridges

  Song: Lessons Learned, Album: Some Hearts, 2005

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• We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy comes as a direct result of a failure to recognize that the DNA of western civilization comes from a biblical worldview.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Biblical, Thinking, Dna

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

  Patricia Hampl

  Sports, Book, Reading

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• Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

  Naomi Ragen

  Book, Old Friends, Worn

  Naomi Ragen (2010). “Jephte's Daughter”, p.147, Macmillan

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• One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes, an exceptional writer finds an exceptional premise, and the result is a truly exceptional book. Such is the case with Miss Dreamsville...The writing is brilliant, especially the dialogue through which the characters are defined.

  Philip K. Jason

  Book, Writing, Character

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• 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

  Sleep, Two, Eden

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• Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique of one art form or another.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.9, Penguin

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• Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Character, Cities

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• Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

  J. J. Abrams

  Technology, White, Imagination

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• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

  Albert Einstein

  Daughter, Teacher, Son

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• How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!

  T.L. Osborn

  Believe, Healing, Miracle

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• When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

  Dave Matthews

  Reflection, Mirrors, Insanity

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