May Quote by Bernard DeVoto Download Open image “The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.” — Bernard DeVoto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Paper Reason Writing
It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written. — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Plain paper has no value but if u write somthng on it, it becomes document, life is same, u have to decide which kind… — Amit Verma Copy Share Image
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
