To my everlasting relief, he’d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there,… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years… — Mary Mapes Dodge Copy Share Image
Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of… — Nathan Shedroff Copy Share Image
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering?… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, arent you? The girl who… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper.… — Mary Badham Copy Share Image
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
A certain something, I felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“Living things don't all require light in the same degree. Some of us make our own light: a silver leaf like a… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
