“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.” DifferentEnoughArtistEasyHistoryStylePaintingSeriousPeriodsPagesTrainingAddHistoricalContributionMaking History Author:Liu Dan
“The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.” IfsWayGivingWritingTryingEnoughCertainMonthsPeriodsSixPagesSix Months Author:Judith Krantz
“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.” IfsKnowsTryingSelfTogetherRealizingAnswersResultsEffortParticularPoetPeriodsPurePagesMarkFinalsGenuineStatementsGiantsHistorianBootsSooner Or LaterInadequateDissatisfactionConsecutive Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.” WorldHappinessPeriodsPagesHarmonyTheatreBlankWorld HistoryAntithesisBlank Pages Book:The Philosophy of History Source: The Philosophy of History
“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.” KnowsMindHas BeensTwoIdeasLastsEnjoyKnow HowWrittenHavensOughtPeriodsPagesGlorious Author:J. B. Priestley
“The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.” ThinkingKindStatesMomentsHappensLossPoetHigherPeriodsPagesAccessCombinationNovelistsPhrasesSurprisingParagraphRaptureBest Moments Author:Don DeLillo
“I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.” WritingMindBookIdeasUseHandsMightFacesWeekSecurityMonthsPeriodsComputerPagesScreensPrintBlankPencilsBlanketNotebookNew BooksBlank Pages Author:Judy Blume
“As for these 60 years, and in general more than a hundred years, we have had different periods in relations and there have been tragic pages in our history, but since 1956 when we restored diplomatic relations, regrettably, we have not had a foundation on which to build ties that would correspond to our wishes and that are currently required in bilateral cooperation with Japan.” YearsHas BeensDifferentWishPeriodsPagesHundredRelationFoundationTiesJapanTragicCooperationDiplomaticDiplomatic Relations Author:Vladimir Putin
“The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad.” IfsNeedsWritingTryingIdeasCharacterFilmStuffWaitingSupportStruggleCreationPeriodsPagesSellsNotionScriptsExcitedBlankGet RealBad IdeasBlank PagesTime PeriodsBad Stuff Author:Whit Stillman
“Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.” TodayPoliticalTurnsHappenedPeriodsPagesSignificantSixty Author:Jerry Saltz
“Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.” WritingFirstsMomentsLastsPeriodsPagesEnjoyable Author:Nicholas Sparks
“We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the break at half-past-nine not freaking out, you have to cram. I'm not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam's homework, bit if it is, his physics teacher is awesome.” IfsWantTwoPastNightGirlThreeBitsHoursBrainHalfBreakStudyTeacherPeriodsPagesWidePhysicsNineEveningNot SureSeniorZombieHomeworkBitingFreaking OutDouchebags Book:White Cat Source: White Cat
“Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.” HeartKindDoeBookSpiritRoomsDarknessNovelMysteryCenturyTelevisionPeriodsPagesLonelyEducatedIronyIsolationAbsentGloomNineteenth CenturyPoisoningKitschPbsLonely HeartAbsent Friends Author:Steve Martin
“I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.” PeopleIfsWorldWellsSometimesEyeAgeMotherBrainSeeingPlanetsPeriodsPagesHarmonyRelateThrough My EyesGlitches Author:Stephenie Meyer