Blank Quotes

539 Blank quotes by 450 unique authors

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and… — Stan Brakhage
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels… — Lincoln Child
I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play… — Billy Childish
I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and… — Carmelo Anthony
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. — Jack L. Chalker
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days… — Anthony Doerr
Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And… — Peter Ackroyd
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae';… — Peter Ackroyd
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. — Brad Meltzer
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this… — John Updike
I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort… — Prabal Gurung
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is… — Samuel Beckett
Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered… — Michael Bassey
Blank paper has always inspired me. — Daniel Handler
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing… — Roshon Fegan
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what… — Jacob Bronowski
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we… — William Shakespeare
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to… — Margaret Atwood
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper. — Jimmy Breslin
Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. — Charles Churchill
I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but… — George Lucas
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas. — Damien Hirst

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