Quotes About Author

I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.

I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.

The editorial page is where you'll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion.

For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

I've always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.

I usually just try to do whatever's on the page because I've done research before - including a lot of analysis - but you end up with conflicting data. To me, the script is king.

In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show it, or you don't.

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

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.

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

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

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.

There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention.