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“He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day’s work had hardly involved more than…

— Henning Mankell

“With no sums to keep his conscience at bay, the black book loomed large, creeping into his line of sight. He scanned the room…

— Karen Witemeyer

“He was folding up his napkin, pushing back his plate, and I wondered how it was he spoke so casually, as thought the matter…

— Daphne du Maurier

“He dusted off the shoulder tab and stared at it, so light in his hand, so inconsequential. It was hard to believe that a…

— Mark Mills

“I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out.”

— Yann Martel

“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

“Doing this would be like starting with a paper cut and trying to bandage it with a machete.”

— Jilly Gagnon

“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten…

— Marcel Proust

“He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple.”

— Alex Beecroft

“He’d picked up all the pieces of me, all the puzzle pieces I’d been trying to sort through and put back together, and dropped…

— Rachel Higginson

“until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys.”

— Charles Dickens

“jotted it on a scrap of paper and passed it down the table, sneaking a covert look at his watch as he did. They…

— Susan Gable