Paper Quotes · Page 103

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

— Ralph Keyes

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines…

— Stanley Baldwin

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper.

— Q-Tip

People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions.

— Scott Young

“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.

— Andrew Neil

If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each…

— Terry Brooks

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper…

— Giacomo Puccini

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.

— John Prine

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead…

— Henry Hazlitt

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the…

— Juan Gris

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

— John Buchanan Robinson

Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate…

— Anonymous

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

— Henry Fielding

My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask.…

— Corey Dillon

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

— Daniel Handler

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves…

— Angela Bassett

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper…

— Eudora Welty

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble…

— Ridley Scott

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

— Junot Diaz

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little…

— David Hockney

If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering…

— Warren Buffett

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

— Ruskin Bond