Page Quotes - page 6

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. (Regina Brett)
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work. View quote
Rachel Gibson
Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. View quote
Rick Riordan
Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything... Nothing happens without a reason... Nothing is impossible...(Page 180). View quote
Rosamunde Pilcher
If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that. View quote
Stephan Pastis
Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page. View quote
Stephan Pastis
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? View quote
Shannon Hale
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. View quote
Shannon Hale
The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day. View quote
Shannon Hale
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it. View quote
Charlaine Harris
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book. (Betsy Byars)
I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head. View quote
Brian Selznick
Twitter is your window to relevance, but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web. View quote
Brian Solis
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. View quote
Brandon Mull
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together. View quote
David Levithan
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world. View quote
David Nicholls
He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever. View quote
J.R. Ward
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely. View quote
Jane Smiley
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with. (Geraldine Brooks)
For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.' View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page. View quote
Keri Smith
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? View quote
Cornelia Funke