Quotes About Pages

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way you do that is to create characters that you really love and care about and put them in a fairly dire situation.

It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

I drove past one of the houses in Tiruvanmiyur and asked them if we could shoot there for 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya' because it seemed straight out of the pages of the script.

I remember in the movies we used to do two pages a day. One in the morning and one in the afternoon.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

Mini-series are my favorite medium to act in because it's the right amount of pages you shoot a day, it's the right amount of time that you're with a character, and they really advertise it a lot so that people get excited for this epic event.

It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even write a few pages about it, and then I'll put it aside, but I'll sort of keep it in mind. Then as time goes on, other things will gather to it as if it's a magnet, almost, and eventually, there's enough to make the story.

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.

Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.

I could literally go on for pages upon pages about Mattis and how influential this man was to me and many others who fought alongside him.

I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

Those that clamor loudest for Columbus to be erased from the pages of American history do so far more because of their hatred for America than their love of the Indians.

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.