We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
Pages entertain me more than pictures do.
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.
She opened her sketchbook, carefully tore out several pages and handed them to Nasser--three detailed color sketches of three flowers. Leafing through the pages, he translated the message. A petunia: Your presence soothes me. A peppermint flower: war...
These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have...
Snow not falling but flying sidewise, and sudden, not signaled by the slow curdling of clouds all day and a flake or two drifting downward, but rushing forward all at once as though sent for. (The blizzard of '36 had looked like that.) And filling up...
Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place ...
Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as it races ahead, not above the world but through it, through forests and complications, the chaos of intentions and cities....
He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or bridges or igloos, or shaped like airplanes or rowboats or fire engines. And pitchers of syrup to choose from -- partridge ber...
The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For the past fifty or so, a kind of slow terror has been rising in his breast. All these pages had seemed necessar...
Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read because it's still there, on the page, simultaneously...
Life happened because I turned the pages.
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words
A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
