Let’s not kid ourselves. You pick up ‘The Washington Post’ and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; ‘serious journalists’ covered Anna Nicole Smith. – Greta Van Susteren
The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry. – Harold Stephen Black
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. – Gregory Maguire
A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki – it’s more valuable than e-mail for running a company – and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently. – Garrett Camp
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. – Helen Vendler
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
I don’t have any sense of an audience when I’m writing. I don’t consider the audience. Because all I’m interested in is the problem on the page. – Jim Crace
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won’t go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. – Joan Didion
I don’t feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it’s so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours. – Joyce Carol Oates
I’d like to think I’m not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I’ve written the final page and switched the computer off. – Jane Green
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. – Julie Burchill
Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page – a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things. – James Fenton
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. – Jules Renard
CNN has given me a platform to share my experiences. My Web site, YouTube Channel and Facebook page have exposed me to thousands of voters who share my concerns. My lack of seniority has not impeded my ability to communicate in any way. – Jason Chaffetz
I never – when I go into a project, I don’t think too much about if there’s a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page. – Jeff Lemire
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite. – James Taylor
I am not – thank heavens – one of those ‘driven’ writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs. – Jim Crace
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. – Julia Cameron
As I’ve explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. – Julian Barnes
I don’t have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. – Jesse Eisenberg
There are six ‘Time Warp Trio’ books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence. – Jon Scieszka