“I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.” WritingTryingFactsStoriesStylePagesResearchCourtNonfictionDocumentsThrillersWriting Nonfiction Author:Ben Mezrich
“The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.” TvsPagesCommentDocumentsIdioticForumsTropesHtml Author:Jeph Jacques
“... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents-many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy"-show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.” YearsShowsKnownMillionsWastePagesWestEnvironmentalDecadesLocalsCorporateGiantsPoundsWarningToxicFactoriesPollutionDocumentsPitsConcealedBannedDumpedCreeksConfidentialMonsantoLandfillsToxic Waste Author:Michael Grunwald
“When I first pursued this with Universal, they had no idea what to do. But now that we've gone through the whole process and I've signed this 60-page document that says what we can and can't do, I suppose it will be a little bit easier for the next person.” FirstsLittlesPersonsIdeasWholeNextBitsProcessGoneEasierLittle BitPagesUniversalNo IdeaDocumentsPursued Author:DJ Shadow
“For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins - the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means.” WayLooksMeanEyeTogetherSoundPagesSizeObsessedDocumentsMarginsFonts Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.” IfsKnowsShouldWritingFirstsEndsDoneJobsLiteraturePaperPagesScriptsArtisticCinemaContributionPensDocumentsPublish Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it.” IfsThinkingWritingStoriesLinesCouplePagesFilledDocumentsMy ThoughtsParagraphOne Liner Author:Chelsea Martin
“There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.” ThinkingNeedsYearsGovernmentOpportunityChallengesHalfMaterialsPagesAvailableScholarDocumentsRefusalFbiResearchersAssassinationArchivesGood Opportunity40th Anniversary Author:Manning Marable
“A simple MS Word document, or a Powerpoint presentation, has its limits, particularly the unpredictability in how the page will actually display. With a PDF, you are locking down all those variables.” SimpleLimitsPagesDisplayDocumentsPresentationVariablesUnpredictabilityPowerpoint Author:Michael Bierut
“When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the theology of stewardship and the theology of "human ecology," it's almost certainly going to be rapturously embraced, or bitterly opposed, as a "global-warming encyclical," despite the evidence that it's much more broadly gauged than that.” HumansImportantAttentionPagesEvidenceClimateClimate ChangeTheologyDespiteGlobal WarmingDocumentsEcologyStewardship Author:George Weigel