“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 Copy Share Image
I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“White space (sometimes called “negative space”) is the space in a composition where the subject is not.” — Dina Wakley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“She cannot remember her mother's face... This is the woman who brought her into the world... This is the woman her father… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences,… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Stark lit a Pall Mall himself, picked up one of his Berols, opened his own notebook . . . and then paused.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The moon’s a dead rock, but I still like the word, so black in its white space. […] what can we say… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
