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| | Debbie Allen |  | The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding what's on the page. |
| | Debbie Allen | | You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person? |
| | Kevin J. Anderson | | It used to be that if somebody was writing a 700-page book, you would give them a couple of years to write it. You really couldn't expect it any faster than that. Now I'm writing a 700-page book in the Seven Suns series and an 800-page book in the Dune series with Brian every year, plus two or three other books. |
| | Kevin J. Anderson | | The thing that makes something classified in a document is a number after a decimal point on a table on page 43 of a 300-page document because it has something to do with a nuclear cross-section or something like that. There aren't folders full of stuff like secret stealth airplanes that are being built in Area 51 or something like that. |
| | Kevin J. Anderson | | You research the book, you outline the book, you write the 400-500 page book, you edit the 400-500 page book, then worry about how to get an agent. |
| | Saint Augustine | | The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. |
| | Paul Auster | | The book is your book. You have been responsible for every single thing on every page, every comma, every syllable is your work. |
| | Gaston Bachelard | | A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. |
| | Joan Baez | | It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. |
| | Hosea Ballou | | A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. |
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