So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

- Don Winslow

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

- P. J. O'Rourke

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

- Ned Beauman

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

- Maya Angelou

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

- Lloyd Dorfman

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

- James Salter

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

- Hailee Steinfeld

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

- Frank Oz

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

- Francine Pascal

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

- Dorothy Fields

When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.

- Aaron Sorkin

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

- David Baldacci

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

- David Ogilvy

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

- Chris Abani

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

- Carolyn Murphy

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

- Cecil B. DeMille

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

- Anne Perry

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

- Albert Brooks

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

- Andy Warhol