Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

Emilie Autumn

We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

Melanie Chisholm

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

Genevieve Bujold

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

Joe Pantoliano

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Emmanuelle Beart

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Neil Diamond

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

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.

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.

Joe Greene

From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Garrett Hedlund

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

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.

Joanna Kerns

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

Karen Kingsbury

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

Maisie Williams

I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

John Cheever

A page of good prose remains invincible.

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.’

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Sarah Dessen

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

Rod Serling

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Robert Smith

I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

Rob Marshall

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