Page Description Quotes

#1. I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Dean Young

#2. No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ...

George R R Martin

#3. There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.

Margaret Geller

#4. The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

John Patitucci

#5. A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

Michael Jordan

#7. Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

James G. Frazer

#8. Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.

Lenny Bruce

#9. Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

Khalil Gibran

#10. By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.

Pamela Druckerman

#11. Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

Carl Hiaasen

#12. Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

Angelo Scola

#13. Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

Herbie Hancock

#14. My mother tells Tina that she doesn't like books where the protagonist is established as Sad on page one. Okay, she's sad! We get it, we know what sad is, and then the whole book is basically a description of the million and one ways in which our protagonist is sad. Gimme a break! Get on with it!

Miriam Toews

#15. To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. I glanced through another page in case I had missed something, and came to the description of Simon's face as he lay on the grass with his eyes closed. It gave me a stab in which happiness and misery were somehow a part of each other.

Dodie Smith

#17. Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with you translating what you see in your mind into words on the page.

Stephen King

#18. Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Lloyd Alexander

#19. Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

Rick Warren

#20. Feeling is the secret.

Neville Goddard

#21. Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

Bill Nye