When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.
Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
Ben Fong-Torres: A Mo-Jo, it's a very modern machine that transmits pages over the telephone! It only takes eighteen minutes a page!
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
A blanket could be used as a flag, for a sleepy nation.
A brick could be used as a comb, if you’re bald and have no hair.
Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.
A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.
I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a character's life into chapters. It's intriguing, because you can't do this with real life. You can't just end a chapter, then skip the things you don't wa...
