Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Warren Buffett

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Sean William Scott

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Lily King

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

Teddy Sears

For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

Taraji P. Henson

Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that.

Tom Waits

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.