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In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.

In the production process, the press runs pages in sets of 16 called 'signatures.' A 208-page guide allows for 13 signatures and would cost institutions no more additional expense than it would to publish a 200-page media guide.

In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.

If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

I generally think students have these pages to express themselves and interests, but not necessarily what their actual reality is... they might talk about drinking a lot, but don't actually drink. Youth are trying on different faces to see how others react to them.

In my work, I need several Web pages open at once, and this is the feature I've been hankering for. I can select a single bookmark to bring up the important pages I would otherwise open serially, and they all order at the same time, in the order I want them to.

I had a great experience working with Dynamite on Masks, and had just gotten started on a stint on The Shadow with them when they floated the idea of a Captain Action series. I've been a little obsessed with the character since I was first introduced to him in the pages of Amazing Heroes back in the early 1980s.

I just think hearing my voice would be unpleasant, ... When you write a book, there's the book and that's it. You don't need pages of commentary or the 300 pages you deleted. I think ultimately the movie has to speak for itself.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

How did we end the summer ... stuck between a Roberts and a hard place? We've spent months poring over 60,000 pages from the National Archives and reams of personal profiles for clues about how John Roberts would rule on the highest court in land. ... The bottom line is that barring some last minute photo of John Roberts popping out of a cake at a KKK rally smoking crack, he's going to be confirmed. And if he were magically derailed, who would be next? ... John Roberts may turn out to be as far right as People for the American Way says. But he may also be as good as it gets under this administration.

How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has been deliberating with the evidence for the past year, but it has been keeping it away from the defense, which is not fair.

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.

Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

‎[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?” he asked with heavy irony. “Bite me,” I sighed, gathering up the pages. He winked. “Of course. My second-favorite thing to do in bed.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

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.

You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.

If future blood tests indicate the cells are indeed churning out the enzyme, this entire endeavor will have moved from theory into the pages of medical firsts.

I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft.

I do sit down every day and make myself write. I want 2,000 words every day or 3 single-space pages a day. I think if you are on a deadline, you have to be disciplined. If you turn things in late, you will find yourself without a contract.

My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...

I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"

I am due at the page.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again.