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Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.
Marie Lu
Me
Writing
Words
Will
First
Difficult
Incredibly
Once
Way
Though
See
Ripping
About
Scenes
Through
Blank
Blank Page
New
Because
Terrifying
Around
Always
Go
Up
New Story
Story
Happily
Moving
Them
Working
Page
Draft
I need to be on the same page as the director.
Marion Cotillard
Director
Same
Same Page
Page
Need
When I'm writing comics, I'm also visualizing how the story will look on the page - not even always art-wise, but panel-wise, like how a moment will be enhanced dramatically by simply turning a page and getting a reveal. It requires thinking about story in a way I never had to consider when I was writing prose.
Marjorie Liu
Writing
Will
Thinking
Consider
Dramatically
Way
Visualizing
About
Never
Had
Simply
Prose
Like
Look
Also
Reveal
Always
How
Comics
Getting
Story
Turning
Page
Requires
Moment
Even
Enhanced
I think it's very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page - that's incredibly easy - but it's far harder to make a reader care about a character.
Mark Billingham
Character
Care
Think
Incredibly
Easy
About
Make
Reader
Very
Disgust
Far
Page
Harder
Violence
I think there are things that digital can't do as well as print thus far. Even an iPad is only 80% the size of a standard comics page, so the images are going to be smaller. You don't get your big, whopping two-page spreads.
Mark Waid
You
Digital
Big
Think
Only
Smaller
Thus
Well
Print
Spreads
Comics
iPad
Get
Going
Size
Far
Page
Your
Standard
Even
Things
Images
If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.
Mark Waid
You
Creative
Yourself
Project
Bore
Come
Without
Questions
Any
Gonna
Page
Show
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
Marla Maples
Every
Press
Out
Stayed
Somehow
Seemed
Could
Issue
Private
Been
Front
Front Page
Different
Public
Might
Page
Away
Played
I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!
Marla Sokoloff
You
Same Thing
Teen
Pretty
Like
Read
Sure
Get
Same
Movie
Again
Frustrating
Page
Thing
I sat down once with the application for Match.com and started to laugh. I couldn't even get past the first page. And that's a very good site!
Martha Stewart
Good
First
Past
Down
Once
Laugh
Very
Get
Site
Page
Sat
Even
Application
Started
Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.
Mary H.K. Choi
Time
Everyone
Presuming
Mystery
Along
Same
Same Page
Much
Page
Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.
Mary Lambert
Work
Word
Job
Incredible
Strive
Poetry
Poets
Putting
Spoken
Spoken Word
Lot
Really
Page
Who
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.
Mary Pilon
History
Book
Confused
Sometimes
Abyss
Research
Live
Books
Geeky
Bottom
Footprint
Joyful
Particularly
Nonfiction
Text
End
History Books
Offer
Author
Often
Tiny
Forgotten
Size
Page
Fascinating
Even
Lump
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.
Matt Ridley
Time
Try
First
Back
Rarely
First Time
Go
Five
Times
Get
May
Rewrite
Sentence
Page
Whole
Right
Four
I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.
Meghan Daum
Work
Me
You
Guilt
Implies
Reader
Because
Dumping
Sins
Confess
Forgive
Asking
Page
Your
I have Twitter auto-post to my Facebook page, and I occasionally post things directly to Facebook as well. I've always noticed that the direct-to-Facebook approach generates far more likes, but I've never actually gone back and run the averages.
Michael Arrington
Facebook
Post
Gone
Twitter
Approach
Back
Run
More
Directly
Never
Likes
Well
Occasionally
Always
Far
Noticed
Page
Actually
Things
Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
Michael Beck
Life
Art
Day
Yourself
Every Day
My Life
Feeling
Down
Every
Collaborative
Kind
Blank
Blank Page
Sitting
Being
Different
Form
Social
Page
Actor
Interpretive
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl
You
Complicated
Simple
Too
Considered
Paper
Implement
Idea
New
Concept
Terms
New Idea
Wal-Mart
Sam
Explain
Page
The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.
Michael Dirda
Me
Ugly
Down
Secretarial
Presume
Kind
Arcane
Some
Entirely
Only
Both
Because
Line
Vertical
Middle
Notebook
Dislike
Pad
Confusing
Page
Use
Actively
Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
Michael Horton
Impossible
Old
Christ
Every
Once
Seeing
New
Message
Read
Without
Narrative
Testament
Truly
Foreshadowed
Anticipated
New Testament
Story
Again
Page
Old Testament
Grasp
Event
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
Michael Morpurgo
Time
Best
Face
Sit
Down
Tell
Best Friend
Blank
Blank Page
Talking
Am
Go
Friend
Grandchildren
Page
By The Time
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
Michael Ondaatje
You
Book
Writing
Darkness
Case
Write
Beyond
Discovering
Discovery
Where
Story
Page
Each
I love when stories have something a little magical in them, and there's wonder and curiosity. Somewhere there are people living these improbable stories, and our job is to go out and find them and bring them to the page. And so, the more surprising, the more uplifting, the more sort of even inspiring a story is, I find myself gripped by those.
Michael Paterniti
Love
Myself
People
Job
Somewhere
Living
Our
Those
Out
Find
Magical
Something
More
Inspiring
Sort
Go
Surprising
Wonder
Improbable
Curiosity
Uplifting
Stories
Story
Little
Them
Page
Even
Bring
I usually just try to do whatever's on the page because I've done research before - including a lot of analysis - but you end up with conflicting data. To me, the script is king.
Michael Pena
Me
You
Try
King
Before
Whatever
Research
Analysis
Data
Because
Lot
End
Up
Done
Just
Conflicting
Script
Page
Including
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.
Michael Shermer
Brilliant
Google
Algorithm
Those
Ranks
Valued
Web
Because
Links
Them
Themselves
Page
Pages
Uses
Origin
Comparison
Number
I glance through the pages of all the top magazines every month just to see if there are any colors that are trending. I'll also go on Instagram and look at the 'popular' page to see what people are liking, what's cool. I'll check it at different times of the day; for example, if it's really late in L.A., you'll see a lot of posts in Asia.
Michelle Phan
Day
You
People
Example
Every
Late
Month
Top
See
Magazines
Posts
Through
Colors
Instagram
Glance
Check
For Example
Look
Also
Liking
Go
Lot
Times
Any
Just
Different
Asia
Really
Page
Pages
Cool
Popular
Different Times
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
Miguel Ferrer
Good
You
Job
Think
Imagination
Easier
Makes
Lot
Page
Your
Actor
Competent
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