Quotes About Communication

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

You can meet somebody at a club. You can meet somebody at a restaurant. But maybe that person is not on the same page. Maybe that person is like, 'I'm starting out, I don't want to get married now.' Or, 'I don't want to have kids.'

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

The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is... you never have an empty page in front of you.

For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.

Britney and I are on the same page. There are no grudges. We communicate on disciplining the kids, and if they're grounded here, they're grounded there. She's a completely different person - as the kids will tell you!

What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

I need to be on the same page as the director.

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.

I think, a lot of times, we find ourselves in a relationship where we are on two different pages.

I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it's important to maintain a personal relationship with fans.

Engage with your readers as often as you can. Readers, myself included, want a relationship with everyone in their lives, even the people behind the pages of their favorite books.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

I feel that most of our pain from the loss of a loved one is things we never said or expressed.