Quotes by Pages I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. Catherine Brady quotation-marks ugly pages Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. C.D. Wright pages reader light Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. Cecil B. DeMille pages giving two I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things. Celeste Ng pages writing trying When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves Cesare Pavese echoes pages ideas In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. Cesare Pavese effort pages writing Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different. Chace Crawford pages writing thinking Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way. Chad Harbach notebook pages way They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life. Chang-Rae Lee concern pages who-i-am I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that. Charlaine Harris pages writing book We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it. Charlaine Harris pages reading might It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV. Charlene Li pages reality people Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Charles Dickens pages hero inspirational "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future." Charles Dickens pages character interesting She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. Charles Frazier pages conversation book I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced. Charles Krauthammer pages country thinking Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. Charles Simic pages making-love summer There are certain episodes that on the page I thought, "Oh boy, this is going to be the funniest episode." And there are other ones that went in, fingers crossed, saying, "Oh well, let's hope something good comes out of it." Oftentimes, those ones wind up being the best ones. Charlie Day pages wind boys As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life. Charlie Munger celebrate pages way A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. Charlotte Bronte difficult depressing pages «23456789101112»