White space Quotes

There's relief in white space for the reader.

— Leni Zumas

“Nobody will do their best work until they have lots of white space on their calendars.”

— Matthew Kelly

“I hereby charge a curse of words to fall upon the “white space”

— Michael Devaney

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

— Jan Tschichold

An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

— Mary Helen Bowers

“Something always comes to fill the empty spaces and this is what I've come to do with white space. I invite thanks.”

— Ann Voskamp

“Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

If you don't have that empty white space around everything in the comics, the border of the page, then it feels like…

— Ed Brubaker

“White space (sometimes called “negative space”) is the space in a composition where the subject is not.”

— Dina Wakley

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

— Richard Corliss

“Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes…

— Stephen King

Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a…

— Giambattista Bodoni

I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.

— Adrian Frutiger

“Scrawled in the album’s white space, in an angry deeply-pushed biro that indented even the next page, were some words paraphrased from…

— Karl Drinkwater

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in…

— John Burroughs

“It helps you to identify gaps in your information: Your brain works visually, and it works by association. So when you start…

— Chuck Frey

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“One thing to keep in mind with a table is that you want the design to fade into the background, letting the…

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

“Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a…

— James Marcus

Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space. Don't be afraid of…

— Kendra Scott

There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get…

— Peter Thiel

“I believe providing every little smidge of information, while a testament to the author, does not allow the reader to experience the…

— Mark E. Lein

The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces…

— Aldous Huxley

“Modernism was based on a kind of arrogance ... and led designers to believe that if they thought of something cool, it…

— Larry Wall

We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at…

— Donald Barthelme

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would…

— Richard Meltzer

“Stark lit a Pall Mall himself, picked up one of his Berols, opened his own notebook . . . and then paused.…

— Stephen King

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“My prose can be dense. I love to pile on detail. I love to describe. I’m much more reluctant to give the…

— Anthony Doerr

“It may seem from a cursory look at the news that the streets are a battleground, a deadly arena of fists, guns…

— Martin Dougherty

“This Land is mostly white space on the map...which is how it should be; I'll leave more detailed map making to those…

— Stephen King

“I'm living in this world. I'm what, a slacker? A "twentysomething"? I'm in the margins. I'm not building a wall but making…

— Richard Linklater

“Where will I be? What will I be? White empty space fills the void, unsure of what picture to paint.”

— Krista Ritchie

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white…

— Norbert Bisky

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

— Annie Leibovitz

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences,…

— Pattiann Rogers

“The moon’s a dead rock, but I still like the word, so black in its white space. […] what can we say…

— Franz Wright

“If you want to make true love to me, take this paper and fill up the white space in-between the blue lines.”

— Delano Johnson

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

— Nicholson Baker