Blank Quotes

539 Blank quotes by 450 unique authors

I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my… — Mark Lawrence
A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no… — Michael Spiller
The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving… — Sylvia Plath
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means… — Alice Duer Miller
Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final… — Francine Prose
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas? — Mark Vonnegut
When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also… — Adrian Frutiger
There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects… — Andrea Seigel
The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one. — Nora Roberts
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing.… — Jose Saramago
Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate — Ray Charles
Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find. — Natasha Bedingfield
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan
Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in… — Haruki Murakami
The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and… — David LaChapelle
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in… — Thomas Malthus
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank… — Brenda Ueland
Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His… — Peter Mayle
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the… — David Almond
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you… — Dave Matthews
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness… — Gaston Bachelard
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have… — Jenny Agutter
God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written. — Martin Luther
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to… — Virginia Woolf
There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in… — Ransom Riggs

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