Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound. — Charles A. Dana Copy Share Image
What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED… — Jeff Fisher Copy Share Image
Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority. — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change… — Kerry Wood Copy Share Image
Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse.… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end… — Radney Foster Copy Share Image
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Bully,' I was actually writing it. I was playing the beat and I was trying to write with a… — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard If I'm… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
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I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me. — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
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