“Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Addison spoke in calligraphy while everyone else talked in scribbles.” — Shawn Martin Copy Share Image
I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays. — Rob Urbinati Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas.… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“what I knew that morning in March 1977 as we settled around the conference table. I wasn’t even sure how these guys… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
Writing is the easiest thing in the world… Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Stella scribbled in thick black texta across half the pages of my best storybook, filled with people who ventured where their hearts… — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of… — John Waite Copy Share Image
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