“I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.” IfsWritingBookCharacterMovingPurposeBehindsReaderComfortablePagesUltimateSmellBlockNovelistsPlotOutlinesPhonyPlausibleSynopsis Author:Clive Cussler
“I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.” IfsWritingTryingLongTwoWholeMovingGirlPagesNotesLikesGaugesMake A Move Author:Devon Werkheiser
“Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.” MovingTurnsBlackPagesOptimisticChapters Author:Robert Masello
“You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.” AbleMovingTurnsNextGamesTermMemoriesDecisionEmotionPracticeGroupsPagesShort TermShort Term Memory Author:Randy Carlyle
“Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?” DoeHandsEyeMovingGrowsProcessProgressPagesRootsDefined Author:Alberto Manguel
“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsPersonsIdeasCharacterWould BeRunningSchoolMovingLinesPerfectHellKnowingFourProduceTypePagesCapableHundredHigh SchoolDespiseGraduatesTrappedTenseFirst PersonProtagonistsMonologuesGraduating High School Author:Craig Johnson
“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
“History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.” LightRomanceMovingFictionMoralHistoryDramaPagesSurpriseCastsStrangerAccidentsFeaturesEpicMajestyKnightsArmorAlpsHectorRobinson CrusoeWinding Down Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it. I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture. It has to move all the time... It's not the stage. A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson. Their eyes need to be dazzled. The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.” IfsNeedsI CanImportantEyeCareFilmMovingAudienceStageLessonsElementsPagesPicksDon't CareScreensI Don't CareFlipScreenplaysLearning Lessons Author:Robert Evans
“I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.” PeopleMovingCultureCan DoRocksPagesGuitarPopsJimmy Author:Johnny Marr
“Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.” WorldMovingLinesWhiteOne DayPagesLettersBlueSmellPalePencilsHush Book:Brown Girl Dreaming Source: Brown Girl Dreaming
“I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.” SaidBookDifferentDoneFilmMovingCasesNovelFansWindPagesPicksPressureOriginalsAddFaithfulPlotTapeImmenseThreadAdaptationDisappointDetoursStorylineTime To KillKeep It Moving Author:Alexander Payne
“I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.” WantEndsMatterCharacterFilmMovingNextRolesPagesHundredFascinating Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.” WayArtFeelingsMovingFormMastersPagesProfoundWorks Of ArtSpeculationGorgeousNew StartJenny Author:Sam Lipsyte
“By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.” PeopleMenWritingMindFirstsLongHas BeensBookDifferentAbleActionMovingIndividualBlackInfluenceTearsSpeechPagesTraditionMarkIndividualityBonesDustLong AgoPersistDifferent PlaceDifferent Times Author:Julian Huxley
“I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.” FeelsLooksStillsI CanEnoughMovingSongBlackCan DoWhiteAliveFieldsPagesStructureSoldierAgendasBlack And WhiteAvant Garde Author:Scott Walker
“I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.” I CanMightMovingNextPagesRevising Author:Dean Koontz
“I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.” ThinkingCharacterMovingSpaceStagePagesLettersSyllables Author:Susan Howe
“It was very definitely architectural. I was using the words on the page as some kind of equivalent of a physical model. But I never thought at that point that I wanted to move toward architecture. I wanted to move toward real space. Sure, that's probably another way of saying, I want to move toward architecture. But I didn't define real space in terms of architecture, then.” WayWantKindRealWantedMovingTermSpacePagesModelsArchitectureAnother Way Author:Vito Acconci
“As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.” MovingGrowsInternetMessagesPagesPlatformsMobileIphoneAppsMoving AwayAndroids Author:Keith Teare
“I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.” FeelsHandsMovingRoomsPagesConnectedLike Me Author:Dani Shapiro
“When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMeanDoeJobsMovingDoorsAchievePagesSpendingInternalsGoing AwayPassagesInvestigationTransparentSpending Time Author:Claudia Rankine
“I`ve had over $20 million spent attacking me. That`s not grassroots money. That`s money from the establishment. We have always had to take on the establishment. We`ll do it again, because the Republican Party needs to turn the page and move forward. And we will.” NeedsMovingTurnsPartyMillionsRepublicanPagesMoving ForwardEstablishmentRepublican PartyAttackingGrassroots Author:Marco Rubio
“Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.” GivingHas BeensMadeEyeMovingLeftRealizingStepsExampleGiving UpPagesBuiltFollowingAccustomedWombArmorTypewriters Author:William S. Burroughs
“We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars.” IfsKnowsLooksWarRealMovingStudyPagesClimateReal LifeMoving ForwardClockBackwardsExpandingPrincetonClock Is TickingNorthwestern Author:Jill Stein
“When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.” WritingMovingLyingLiteratureStuffPagesGet Up Author:Ken Kesey
“At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.” ShouldKindStoriesEyeMovingSpaceReaderPagesCoreComicHer EyesTime And SpaceRough Times Author:Gene Luen Yang
“I think that the mourning process of the film involves discussing it, dissecting it, and at some point, you get bored with it. I'm not there yet, but I know I will be there at some point. That's the moment when I know I need to turn the page and move on and recharge my batteries.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsMomentsFilmMovingTurnsProcessPagesBoredMourningDiscussingBatteriesDissecting Author:Olivier Assayas
“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
“There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” PeopleTwoBookSometimesDreamMovingReadingRoomsNumbersPagesSleepersReading Room Book:The Journal of My Other Self Source: The Journal of My Other Self
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.” BookMovingReadingMinutesPagesFiftyPrintBuried Author:Carol Shields
“Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.” WayLittlesEndsMovingSongWatchesLaughingFeetStageDrinkBedPagesClaimsDressesFingersMy WayDawnSweatSwearFoeHere And ThereHailAnother Day Book:Dorothy Parker Source: Dorothy Parker
“You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.” IfsNeedsFeelsKindImportantMightMovingWhiteColorEasierPaperPagesStonesSticksBlowPostsLastingSquaresSay AnythingCheerfulSomewhere ElseIntimidatingCompactFriendlinessFestiveWhite Paper Author:Erin Morgenstern