Add to that the challenge of adapting a book that might prove more powerful in the imagination than in the depiction, featuring sex scenes that could become repetitive on screen, and padded on the page with copious contract clauses and email interchanges.
He has a knack for wilted, even failed, aphorisms: "Writing and claustrophobia, or rather the need to overcome it, go together"; "Films begin more tangibly than novels"; "Aren't we all apprentices to our hands?" Reprinting interviews that one has given is a borderline practice, one that can reek of self-regard or the need to pad the page count.
Mr. Andrés carefully picked through the tattered little pad for the page that proves Julien brought French fries to America or, as he called them, pommes de terre frites à cru en petites tranches.
It's not that A-Rod isn't notorious or defective enough to fit in with the sex tape ghouls, narcotized celebrity siblings, nip-slip artists, and Photoshop victims that ordinarily pad out the page view-mongering slideshows on the celebrity-carnage portion of the internet.
I step on this pad to turn the page forward and this pad to turn it back -- which I hope won't be necessary in performance".
I will obviously have to pad out the pages with lots of boring details you will want to skip.
This glaring absence of plot unfortunately required Alex to pad out the pages with his observations on life, rural and otherwise, and he never failed to sink to the challenge.
Patronage pads the payroll.
The author reprints too many long and unpithy extracts from his correspondence with various knaves and dolts, and he pads his pages with too many lists, that favorite fallback of the blocked or weary comic muse.
There is no computer in Patterson's office; he writes in longhand on a legal pad and gives the pages to his assistant to type up.
