Paper Quotes · Page 31

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and…

— Haruki Murakami

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

— Douglas Booth

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

— Kathi Appelt

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

— Twyla Tharp

Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.

— Darynda Jones

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

— Charles Melton

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put…

— Raymond Buckland

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep…

— Charles Stross

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I…

— William Bell

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to…

— Issey Miyake

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common…

— Jack Kevorkian

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on…

— Pat Barker

“I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the…

— Rhoda Janzen

The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring…

— George Will

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned…

— George Washington

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after…

— Henry David Thoreau

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40…

— Rob Manuel

ONCE WHEN I WAS ninth grade i had to write a paper on a poem. One of the lines was"If your eyes…

— Richelle Mead

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet.…

— O. Henry

Marriage can be whatever you define it as. For example, I don't feel like I need a piece of paper that says…

— Johnny Depp

A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves…

— Douglas Preston

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

— Brian Tracy

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

— Bill Simmons

“My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper.”

— Robin Sloan

“And I think, If i dared to ever open that paper, this would be the place.”

— Ally Condie

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

— Anonymous

I have had several positive interactions with A4 paper over the years.

— Tim Key

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

— Anton Chekhov

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Until the writers room sets it down on a sheet of paper and then it gets in front of a camera, it's…

— Brendan Hunt

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

— Samantha Bond

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

— Donald Trump

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

— Paul Watson

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

— John Edensor Littlewood

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

— Gil Kane

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

— Lauren Kate

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

— Beryl Bainbridge