Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're… — Don Aslett Copy Share Image
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we… — John Green Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember… — Don Everly Copy Share Image
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts,… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday'… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the nigh.The… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I did not agree..to having my article censored. ...The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you… — John Yudkin Copy Share Image
“Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I looked where he was tapping. "Local Girl Missing, Feared Dead" Beneath it was a photo or me-my most recent school photo.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter… — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead. — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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