368 Quotes About Pages

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.

I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

The printed page was like wine to me.

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.