Page Limit Quotes

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.

I don't write fight scenes in comics all that well. I think they're a waste of space unless they can move a story forward in some compelling fashion. You've only got twenty-two pages to work with. Why throw that away on a set of meaningless punches?

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.

Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

Never write more than two pages on any subject.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

I'm often forced to draw a lot of tiny panels due to the limited number of pages and the complexity of the story.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.