He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Today Carly Fiorina announced that she is running for president. Someone else bought 'CarlyFiorina.org' and posted 30,000 sad emoticons to represent all… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's… — Abbey Lee Kershaw Copy Share Image
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's… — Thomas Gibbons Copy Share Image
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.” — AA Patawaran Copy Share Image
It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story… — William Shatner Copy Share Image