I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying… — Mary Docter Copy Share Image
You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper. — Donna Jo Napoli Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper” — Teresa Nielsen Haydense Copy Share Image
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
But that was our thing from day one: to make Paper Route Empire strong. That's why I never wanted to sign to… — Young Dolph Copy Share Image
I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key… — Deborah King Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with,… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five… — Jaquelin T. Robertson Copy Share Image
I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't… — Sean Berdy Copy Share Image
As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago that if I really wanted to bring my ideas into experience, I needed to write down… — Mary Manin Morrissey Copy Share Image
Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth. — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The key is to get it all down on paper before the coffee stops telling you you're talented. — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas? — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whoever said technology will replace paper has obviously never tried to wipe their butt with an iPad. — Cyberbilly Copy Share Image
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars? — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life. — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
