Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grace Paley

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

Jesse Eisenberg

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

Michelle Moran

I do sit down every day and make myself write. I want 2,000 words every day or 3 single-space pages a day. I think if you are on a deadline, you have to be disciplined. If you turn things in late, you will find yourself without a contract.

Irving Penn

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Greg Behrendt

It takes you right back to Page One again.

Paul LePage

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

Joanna Kerns

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

Lindsey Shaw

Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

Lewis Black

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

Philip Greenspun

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

Karen Kingsbury

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

Mary Higgins Clark

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

John Grisham

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

Margaret Atwood

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

Irvine Welsh

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

Harry S Truman

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

Neil Diamond

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

Nicolas Sarkozy

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Nora Roberts

You can't edit a blank page

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Melanie Chisholm

If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide.

Terry Pratchett

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

James Fenton

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

Genevieve Bujold

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

John Cheever

A page of good prose remains invincible.

Michel Faber

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

It's a new chapter. It's like a photo album. In the GMC we took all our pictures, but that's won, done and over. Now, we have a new page to create.

Taylor Swift

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

Thomas Lennon

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Rob Marshall

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.