Pages Quotes
A page is a pause.
Read a page, think an age.
Pliny
Pages entertain me more than pictures do.
Amit Kalantri
My pages amuse only when they are free.
Martial
There are no blank words. Just blank pages.
Hadinet Tekie
Blank pages are the only things left perfect in this world.
To beautify the page was to pay homage to its contents.
I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
Nora Roberts
I'm an open book. But some of the pages are stuck together.
Kelli Jae Baeli
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life.
Constance Chuks Friday
Every day is a blank page. You can write it exactly as you choose.
Books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.
Don Paterson
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Augustine
Part of me has always wanted to hide, and then to impress people on the page.
Maggie Nelson
The most beautiful and perfect book in the world is a book of only blank pages.
Ulises Carion
This lasted longer than I could describe even if I wrote pages and pages about it.
C S Lewis
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation.
Ursula K Le Guin
Faith comes alive when the Word read from the page becomes the Word heard in your heart.
Rex Rouis
Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?
Shannon L Alder
I'm writing a book. I have the page numbers done, now I just have to fill in the rest.
Steven Wright
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
Tahereh Mafi
No other agency can penetrate so deeply, witness so daringly, abide so persistently and influence so irresistibly as the printed page.
Samuel Zwemmer
And he said...do not expect a leaf in a book to breathe as a leaf would as if it was on a tree.
Anthony T. Hincks
Where walking renders a continuous progression, step by step, from discrete footfalls, the codex does so page by page, combining compositions into longer sequences.
Levi Sherman
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
Elie Wiesel
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
Annie Dillard
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov
We need to unlearn our perception of a blank page as clean, safe and natural and see it for what it really is: chemically bleached tree-mash.
Mandy Haggith
I like old books with covers worn / Old books I do not want to mend / Each speaks to me with pages torn / And gently says, "I am your friend."
William Arthur Ward
So Friar Jerome began his Book / From break of dawn till curfew-chime / He bent above the lengthening page / Like some rapt poet o'er his rhyme.
T B Aldrich
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom
The simplest way to clarify your thinking is to write a full page about whatever you are dealing with and then delete everything except the 1-2 sentences that explain it best.
James Clear
I am not interested in the single pictures, I am interested in the totality of the thing. The individual pages have to give up their indenpence in order to form a union.
Keith Smith
Books take on new meanings when considered en masse. A shelf, a bookcase or a library of books can send messages that are different from any of the messages on those books’ pages.
Tom Mole
The Garden Book is … where I was experimenting with the relationship between the garden bed and the white page, between planting rows of seed and writing lines of text.
Jan Davis
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page.
Annie Proulx
Beware of expanding what is clear... A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio.
Joseph Joubert
Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time. Writing a page each day doesn’t seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
Austin Kleon
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have…At the end of the day, I mark up the pages that I’ve done….I mark them up so that I can retype them in the morning. It gets me past the blank terror.
Didion
I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.
Nnedi Okorafor
These pages are intended at their commencement to contain a record of new thoughts (when they occur); for a receptacle of all the old ideas that partial but peculiar peelings at antiquity can finish or furbish; for tablet to save the wear & tear of weak Memory & in short for all the various purposes & utility real or imaginary which are usually comprehended under that comprehensive title Common Place book.
Emerson
The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of society. It does not grow weary. It needs no furlough. It lives longer than any missionary. It never gets ill. It penetrates through the mind to the heart and conscience. It has and is producing results everywhere. It has often lain dormant yet retained its life and bloomed years later.
Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.
Elie Wiesel
Poetry volumes surround a well-turned sonnet with acres of white margin, like a piece of polished jet displayed on an ample white cushion. The page layout entreats us to bring to the poem a mind cleared of distractions, like the page, and focused rigidly on the words islanded in a sea of white paper. When you read a book, you're always reading a material object as well as a strong of text. Reading matter always takes the form of matter.
Tom Mole
Books are inevitably intertextual – they grow out of older texts – and that all writing involves selecting words from a finite pool: what appears to be a constraint, having to work within the walls of an existing novel, in fact dramatises a condition of literature. Some technologies, the typewriter for instance, make this sense of writing qua selection vividly apparent: writers may create an infinite number of worlds, but the next action can never be more than choosing one from a small number of keys. The pen and the blank page create the illusion of creativity ex nihilo: but it is an illusion.
Adam Smyth
When her work was done, she ran away to her books with the greatest possible delight. Even when very young, she would hide away with books, pen, ink, and paper, rather than play with her schoolmates. Her father and mother used to wonder what she did with so much paper; but she was too bashful to show what she wrote. Her mother, therefore, was much surprised, when searching in a dark closet, she found a number of little books, made of writing paper, evidently done by a child. The writing consisted of little verses, written to the pictures she had drawn on the opposite page. She cried when she found her treasures had been discovered, and then they were given to her, she took an early opportunity to burn them secretly; this shows how natural it is for people of good sense to be bashful about their own productions.
"Lives of Celebrated Children, No. 2," Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, July 1830, of Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825)
The tedious task of writing has to become second nature to you. If you sit down and write quietly the whole day, you’ll have written at least two or three pages, even if it’s a struggle. And if you keep at it, you’ll eventually have a couple hundred pages. I think young people today don’t know the trick of it. They start and want to get to the end right away. When you go mountain climbing, the first thing you’re told is not to look at the peak but to keep your eyes on the ground as you climb. You just keep climbing patiently one step at a time. If you keep looking at the top, you’ll get frustrated. I think writing is similar. You need to get used to the task of writing. You must make an effort to learn to regard it not as something painful but as routine.
Akira Kurosawa
Do people need to spend more time with your books? How do you feel about someone who may just casually flip through one of your books? IB: Fine. No problem. With some books, it can be a slow medium. It’s turning the pages — that’s the entire experience of a book. It’s a very simple tool, and doesn’t always have to be treated like a treasure.
Irma Boom