“The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.” PeopleBookMovingTurnsChallengesDealsTelevisionTvsPagesFlowTendenciesDescriptionAccuracyPrecision Author:Brian Greene
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.” ArtRealityArtistChoicesLiteratureSocialWealthDealsConditionsTalentPositionPagesOrdinaryPsychologicalRealismExceptionalImaginativeFreedom Of Choice Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long before poets had to deal with the page and white space . . . it's natural.” PeopleThinkingBelieveLongWholeMomentsProblemPoliticalI BelieveNaturalSpaceWhiteDealsPoetPagesSamenessEvasionAmerican PoetryThis I BelieveWhite Space Author:Yusef Komunyakaa
“You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.” ThinkingWritingYearsKindMomentsCharacterLosesLinesLevelsDealsPayKnownSeeingTvsPagesPainfulThat MomentUglinessCrossingsWeird Things Author:Scott M. Gimple
“You shouldn't marry unless the both of you are on the same page on a lot of things. Life is going to deal you blows, and you have to be together. Your values and priorities have to be on the same page; otherwise, it won't work.” TogetherLife IsValuesDealsPagesBlowPriorities Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.” FirstsWellsBookSelfFeelingsDealsCareersDoubtPagesHundredOvercomingNew BooksSelf-doubt Author:Dean Koontz
“After 'Punk'd,' my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game. If you got front-page coverage on any popular website, you could probably get a push.” IfsDifferentFormGamesDealsCompanyFrontsProducePagesPunkWebsiteCoverage Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.” WorldUniverseInterestDealsMankindCoupleHorrorPagesMurderTiredBeastly Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.” ThinkingMenShouldLittlesDoeWarDealsDutyKingsPagesInventionOddDullWearyPopeQuarrelsTiresomePestilenceVex Book:Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion Source: Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion