Page One Quotes

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat - almost playing the guitar more like a drum.

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

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.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

Reviewing good puzzle books is frustrating, because you get to page one of the introduction, find a curious puzzle, become engrossed for 20 minutes, miss your stop and then fail to get home in time to say goodnight to the kids.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

Do something good and you won’t make page one. Find something bad and you might make page one.

Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and confusion.

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Sometimes a book I'm reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I've missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don't want to let it go.

Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.

For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.