Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue – there’s this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.
I think ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is a good example of a film where you have to juggle a whole lot of information to follow that story, and even if you haven’t read the book, it seems to go pretty well. And that is a film where the characters didn’t meet until 74 minutes into the film, not on page 17.
I’ve spent more time on Hillary Clinton’s Flickr page than any other human being on the planet.
As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I’m ready to rip it right now, there’s five people in the band, there’s five people who’ve evolved and grown and there’s five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.
The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.
The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just… put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate… and eventually, a Facebook emerges.
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it’s still even around.
President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton’s playbook.
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.
Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.
Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what’s on the front page, the masses do.
Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It’s more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.
Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.
As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn’t use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won’t go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
There are always issues on the front page that need to be explored.
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen – it becomes distorted, and it’s been diminished.
Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn’t, No! it wasn’t me either.
People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?
Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.
I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It’s so impressive what they do with their bodies. It’s like painting: an abstraction.
I remember when I was trying to do ‘Metropolitan,’ in breaks I would read a page of two of Jane Austen as a palate-cleanser.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
I think when you work with people who are super exceptional, there’s simplicity to it because everybody is on the same page in terms of tone.
I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
Most people don’t read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn’t really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, ‘Nah, let’s change that,’ and I designed the page.
You cannot cover a ruin with a page of ‘Pravda.’
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it’s in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we’re so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.
A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.
I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of ‘Herzog’, something within me has wandered into another room.
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
I don’t feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it’s so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what’s going on in my life.
I never admit to wishing I’d written something by another author, but if my name mysteriously appeared on the title page of ‘The Guns of August,’ I wouldn’t complain.
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.
I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people’s music and that I’m just not out here on my own page.
Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page – and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I’m not dismissing that by any regard.
I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.
Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this – that it’s a job?
We’re living at a time where if you do a Google search for a ‘show, review and network,’ you’ll get ‘The New York Times’ and Pete Billingsley from a town you’ve never heard of on the same results page. It’s kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
It’s fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well, an exciting scene on the page will actually have a physical effect on the reader – your heart will beat faster, your adrenaline will start to flow.
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, ‘You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I’m not your agent, and I’m not your mommy; I’m a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?’ and I really, really don’t. I’ll go peaceable-like.
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn’t explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
In the end, I am quite normal. I don’t have odd habits. I don’t dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don’t talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer’s block, all those things that we hear about writers.
The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don’t get why that’s a proper use of an adult’s time.
