Quotes About Expression

The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is... you never have an empty page in front of you.

For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.

What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.

I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.

My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda Woodson. I just loved the power of that, of being able to put a letter on the page and that letter meaning something.

Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I'm going to compete.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.

It is amazing how quickly a true talent can announce itself. In the case of Myla Goldberg, it is not even a matter of pages, but of sentences.

Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.