“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.” TwoActionFilmUsedThreeHoursChallengesNovelFourCuttingPagesHundredFeaturesDramaticAdapting Author:Tom Perrotta
“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.” MenLittlesStoriesAgeSpaceHalfBreakCuttingWrittenFootballSpeechPaperSixPagesSticksSevenEdgesEightSquaresBubblesSheetsSpyFolds Author:Ian Rankin
“[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.” IfsBookEnoughUseTogetherCausesCuttingSubjectsEvolutionNormalPagesCarefulDamagePortionsThickAgnosticSectionsSpineCorrections Author:George R. R. Martin
“There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.” PeopleIfsWayGivingBookCharacterHandsRunningTurnsHoursNovelCuttingFiguresWillingReturnReaderPagesLaysErrorsPostsOnlineCopiesPromotingPrintedEditsSpineOutputReturn To Me Author:Cory Doctorow
“If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?” IfsFirstsNovelCuttingPagesSizeBookstores Author:Brian Helgeland
“Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayMindFirstsArtBookOrderEasyLinesQualityCompanyCuttingDesignProduceWillingProductsPridePagesBottomCornersFinishedWorks Of ArtBottom LineOne WordIllustrationEasy WayAbram Author:Stan Lee
“When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.” KnowsWayWritingI CanWholeCharacterStoriesHappensCertainCan DoDecisionNumbersCuttingPossibilityPagesScriptsBunchFasterMaking DecisionsCutting Off Author:Steven Zaillian
“I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.” MadeI CanStuffEnjoyFourCuttingImagineBrotherScenePagesHappeningsBallsGreenScreensTeethDialogueTennisGasTwinsAdaptationBecause I CanTennis BallsTwin Brother Author:Nicolas Cage
“A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.” KindDoeSeemsStuffCuttingPagesOrdinaryBackwardsStorytellerTenseModernismShufflePresent Tense Author:Philip Pullman
“I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.” ThinkingWayBeautifulSidesHalfCuttingPagesBlowBoresBloodyCropsBeautiful Picture Author:Diana Vreeland
“I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.” ThinkingSexStuffSecretCuttingShareSpecialPagesGardenValuableMemoirSecret Garden Author:Damian Barr
“I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my own way of doing things. I've cut it back over the years, but some of the descriptions can still be still pretty dense. So the answer is somewhere between fairly detailed and maybe too detailed. Fortunately, people are seeing the final pages and not my raw script.” PeopleWayYearsStillsUsedMy OwnAnswersCuttingSeeingPagesFinalsScriptsDetailsWork OutDescriptionDenseHedging Author:James Vance
“I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.” BookSometimesWantedFeltCuttingPagesHintsRedundant Author:Leni Zumas
“It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.” LittlesImportantBookWould BeBitsQualityCuttingLittle BitPagesDepthWorth ItCheaperNot Worth It Author:Ian Christe
“Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.” CuttingMaterialsThousandPagesIncludingNakedLunchTrilogiesNovas Author:William S. Burroughs
“I meet Susan [Saradon], and she was amazing. We sit down to go through the script [Thelma & Louise]. I swear, I think it was page one - she says, "So my first line, I don't think we need that line. Or we could put it on page two. Cut this ..." And I was just like ... My jaw was to the ground.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsTwoLinesCuttingPagesScriptsSwear Author:Geena Davis
“If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.” PeopleIfsGivingLittlesLongRunningMovingThreeNextBitsBreakCuttingSceneLittle BitPagesTheaterNotes Author:James McAvoy
“I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.” BookSeemsEmotionCuttingExpressionPagesAppreciationSentencesChosenFiftyUrgesPossessedBrevity Book:Dreams From My Father Source: Dreams From My Father
“Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.” PeopleWorldWarAnswersClearCuttingExampleNormalPagesImpactWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiDozenTeenageTextbooks Author:Joan Bauer
“If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.” IfsMeanEyeTurnsWhiteAttentionCuttingWrittenAirProtectPaperPagesBirdPay AttentionProtect YouPaper Cuts Book:The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel