I turn to the ‘Telegraph’s’ obituaries page with trepidation.
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.
If you can build a Facebook page and channel the audience to your website, you can generate revenue via PPC advertisement networks like Google Adwords, Taboola, Yahoo! Bing Network, AdRoll, 7Search, etc.
I think it’s very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page – that’s incredibly easy – but it’s far harder to make a reader care about a character.
The sports page records people’s accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man’s failures.
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.
If you’re a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.
I was tired of illustration. You’d work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you’d turn the page and it was gone.
I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it’s kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
When you’re looking for a sketchbook, you’ve got to find the right paper for the pens you like to use. I like to draw on both sides of the page.
When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn’t ideal.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It’s one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
The true art is being able to take whatever the writer’s done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is a bit rushed or is just box-ticking writing, then the true artist would be able to make that come off the page and sing for an audience or a viewer. I’m still learning how to do that properly.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
I’ve always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.
Right now, I’ve never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we’re all on the same page about culture, music and life.
I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I’ve got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.
I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how it’s written, can really help your character develop.
Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Everybody’s idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it’s one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
Nearly all web publications are driven by the display model, which is in turn driven by page views. But we all know the web is shifting, thanks to mobile devices and the walled gardens they erect. The new landscape of the web is far more complicated, and new products must emerge.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can’t hold ’em back. You got to work with ’em, dude. What you think, I’m just gonna do what’s on the page, say ‘yes sir, no sir’? I’m creatively beyond that.
My public Facebook page is what it is. My Twitter account is sort of what it is, but if I’m totally honest with you, that is not my personal, private self. I have another Facebook page that is devoted to my dear friends and family, and they can keep in touch with me that way.
I wish there was a museum of sorts for legends like Ellis R Dungan and many others who disappear with the turn of page in the book of time.
Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!
When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it’s often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.
I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.
I’m very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
I don’t pay any attention to what the ‘Baltimore Sun’ editorial page says about anything.
I sat down once with the application for Match.com and started to laugh. I couldn’t even get past the first page. And that’s a very good site!
Now there are certain things you have to prepare – like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn’t need – for me, I don’t need to prepare that.
I don’t write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.
Having my name kind of pop out on a page more so than other people helped in recruiting, helped in a lot of different areas. But when it comes down to it and you’re talking about professional football – you can either play, or you can’t. They don’t care what your last name is at the end of the day.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
Words on the page don’t have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.
A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there’s the phone, smartphone, iPad: It’s the new page, and it’s not the same page anymore.
My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
I have to relearn how to walk again. It’s not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get back on the same page, and remind yourself that it’s OK to do this. You’ve done this before. It’s reminding it what it’s supposed to do again.
For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It’s close to being functionally flawless – like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google’s home page.
What’s unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn’t been raised to always be asking questions.
You don’t sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don’t do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.
My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We’re very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We’re on the same page that way.
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed – from song lyric to tragic speech – must make its point, as it were, without reference back.
I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials – considering it’s a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition – I think it’s the best editorial page around. It’s quite balanced.
