Page Quotes - page 23

Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words. (Cornelia Funke)
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen. View quote
Lincoln Child
I live for the blank page. View quote
Lisa Unger
I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people. View quote
Lisa Unger
A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page. View quote
Lawrence Wright
He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it. View quote
Berkeley Breathed
I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done. View quote
Riccardo Muti
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family. View quote
Bil Keane
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people. (Nancy Gibbs)
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two. View quote
James Rollins
Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page. View quote
Hubert de Givenchy
I used to look in my mind for the unwritten page if my mind was empty enough I could see it I didn't paint the plane I just drew this horizontal line Then I found out about all the other lines But I realized what I liked was the horizontal line Then I painted the two rectangles correct composition if they're just right. View quote
Agnes Martin
In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived. View quote
Burt Ward
Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me. View quote
Gloria Vanderbilt
You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last. View quote
Milo Ventimiglia
.. Oh my dear friend, you whose voice called me towards my beautiful past, oh how I love you because you are young, you serve the idea, you understand the beauty of a life devoted completely to abstraction. Oh the devil you have done me, and the good of this devil. There is an atrocious page in my existence... I am not a woman. Neither love nor the family satisfies me. I don't like the baby. I detest the household. I love all works of the human genius, I adore art the beauties of nature and of the heart. The beautiful, the beautiful in all such as love and such as life. View quote
Marianne von Werefkin
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. View quote
A. E. van Vogt
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. View quote
Paul von Hindenburg
In the Great War ledger, the page on which the Russian losses were written has been torn out. No one knows the figure. Five or eight Million? (Paul von Hindenburg)
.. in spite of the fact that it often feels as though the meaning of words and sentences were conveyed to us by the sounds of speech or the signs on a printed page, It is easy to show that meanings do not travel through space and must under all circumstances be constructed in the head of the language users. View quote
Ernst von Glasersfeld
Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well. View quote
John Maeda
And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else. View quote
Zoe Kazan
As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do. View quote
Corey Feldman