Paper Quotes · Page 21

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

— Joan Didion

“Darwin's work is a testament to the power of two of the most basic tools used in research, the pencil and paper.”

— Robert Mark Silverman and Kelly L. Patterson

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

— Rick Bragg

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my…

— Aubrey Plaza

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

— John Green

“I didn't throw the paper away. Maybe I should have. Oh, the things you know in retrospect.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

— Cat Deeley

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

— William Faulkner

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but…

— Jack Herer

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do…

— Lindsay Fox

So spirit is both the highest "level" in the holarchy, but it's also the paper on which the entire holarchy is written.…

— Ken Wilber

“The history that you are writing today will become the both the legacy of your yesterday as well as the template of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida,…

— John Green

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story…

— Linda Conrad

I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize…

— Tom Lehrer

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on…

— Adam Hochschild

“You were with Margo Roth Spiegelman last night? At THREE A.M.? I nodded. Alone? I nodded. Oh my God, if you hooked…

— John Green

You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life.…

— Don DeLillo

I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of…

— Dwight L. Moody

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. A friend…

— Anne Lamott

A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction…

— William Zinsser

“When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons,…

— Deborah Davis

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my…

— Lesley Gore

Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.

— Walter Schloss

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

— Anonymous

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

— George Lindsey

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

— Ivan Klíma

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

— Nita Engle

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

— Tim Field

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

— John Buchanan Robinson

“In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”

— Tahereh Mafi

You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

— Jeff Foxworthy

“They read. The sounds of paper between them as they turn and crease and carefully avoid touching each other.”

— Alexis M. Smith

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

— Eli Broad

I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market.

— Robert Kiyosaki

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

— Edward Abbey

“Writing is an intimate transaction between two people, conducted on paper...”

— William Zinsser

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

— Lewis Mumford

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see…

— Brad Paisley