The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.
I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.
If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
Beppu (n. ) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies.
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1)
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.
Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.