“The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.” DoeEndsFictionPossibilityApproachPagesTraditionGratificationBrooksDichotomyBroccoli Author:F. R. Leavis
“Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?” BookRealStudyReaderElementsApproachPagesTechniqueOntologyGuerrillas Book:The Illuminati Papers Source: The Illuminati Papers
“My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.” SaidIdeasShowsHeavenMiddleFrontsHolyApproachPagesExcitingNewspapersSmokeProfanity Author:Arthur Christiansen
“It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindArtistStyleInspireLike YouApproachPagesDrawingStuckLiberatingBogs Author:Daniel Clowes
“This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” WorldHumansStatesEnemyTruth IsApproachPagesDestructionLogicIronNew WorldBootsDictatorSophisticatedTechnologicalExtensionsMenaceRefinementHuman Freedom Author:Rod Serling
“Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.” WayCharacterShowsJobsFilmTvsHigherProjectsApproachPagesScriptsLiftsBudgetsTv Shows Author:Michael Eklund
“Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my background. Cindy Kelley, who has been my writing partner on my novels, she works more on the prose side and the description side of the storytelling because, obviously, there's a lot more of that in a novel than in a screenplay. You only have up to 120 pages in a screenplay.” WritingFirstsWellsKindHas BeensSidesNovelApproachPagesPartnersBackgroundsStorytellingProseDescriptionScreenplaysCindy Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.” PeopleWritingLooksGoneFrontsApproachMessagesPagesBasesNewspapersAnarchyWikileaks Author:Martin Sorrell
“The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .” IfsKnowsWellsBookProblemWantedNamesProcessFeetFiguresApproachPagesTestsBottomAveragePhonesInterviewsEach DaySpidersFlipTrickyManhattan Author:Bill Gates
“You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.” HumansDifferentRealStoriesHuman BeingsApproachPagesInsightfulShort StoryReal Human Book:Martha and Hanwell Source: Martha and Hanwell
“I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingYearsWellsI CanAgePastUsedCan DoNovelWrittenLuckyApproachPagesOld Age Author:Alice Munro