Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it’s lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.
I used to take ‘Visions of Cody’ by Jack Kerouac on tour all the time. I don’t really love Kerouac, but that book, you could just open at any page and find something incredible for that day.
I mark the reading of ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I’d vandalised and now limit myself to ‘Good wishes.’
Having been a ‘Page 3’ model I know what is it like to be singled out as one thing, to be dismissed as unintelligent and only possessing one quality.
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
In ’93 to ’94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired.
I don’t write for an auditorium full of people. I don’t write for the microphone; I write for the page.
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
In the morning, I reach for the sports page.
A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers’ and the nation’s perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher’s choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.
All I’ve ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
I would see these people calling me ‘fat’ and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me ‘Miss Piggy,’ and they only referred to me as ‘Miss Piggy.’ I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight.
I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.
The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.
It’s interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.
You want to see energy, and you want to see guys on the same page. You want guys to work together and have that energy come out onto the field. That’s a good place to start.
So much of what we decide to carry in our stores is based on what we hear through the Dylan’s Candy Bar Facebook Page and Twitter feeds.
Well, I’m a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I’d love to be more efficient, but I am not.
My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.
But a writer’s contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that’s what being a director is.
In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
If you want to page me, It’s OK! I’ve actually had guys tell me they were fans from the ‘Kim Possible’ days. And I’ve met people who still have the ‘Kim Possible’ theme song as their ringtone.
I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It’s why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It’s why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.
I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user.
Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That’s a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it’s not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.
When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn’t even have words like click and jump and page.
I’ve seen such great material, and now I’m more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it’s gotta be there. There’s an old theater saying: ‘If it’s not on the page, it’s not on the stage’… You gotta have some type of standards as far as the jobs that you take and the roles that you take on.
Children and teens take in stories to the deepest imaginable level. What we put on the page can change the people they’ll become and the course of their lives.
It’s virtually impossible for most sites to do a billion page views in a month or even a year.
In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can’t dance around stuff. You either show it, or you don’t.
Write a page a day. It will add up.
After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages – he believed that if you crumpled them, you’d be insane in a year.
To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it’s all on the page, then it’s really just gonna pop out at you.
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I’m reading things I don’t even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
It’s hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.
I generally don’t walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don’t love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it’s just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what’s going to turn around.
I don’t know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it’s true. We aren’t satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It’s the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.
