Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cornelia Funke

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

Kresley Cole

In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages are now sitting in a folder called 'Cuttings,' never to be read. Ouch!

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.

Grace Paley

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

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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

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.

Jon Krakauer

As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

Jeff Daniels

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

George W. Bush

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

George Steiner

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

Gil Kane

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

Haley Joel Osment

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

Jim Gaffigan

You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'

Michel Faber

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

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

Melanie Chisholm

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

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.

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.

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.

Clara Shih

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

Gillian Jacobs

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

Julia Cameron

I am due at the page.

Steven Morrissey

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

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.

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.