Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series.
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Our successful stories die with us. If you are lucky enough, you go into the pages of history books where only few are interested to dig about you.
All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!
When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.
