Page Quotes

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

Write a page a day. It will add up.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

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.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.