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I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a… — John Milius
Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia,… — Diego Della Valle
I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers. — Jenna Bush
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. — S.A. Bodeen
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that… — Lukas Foss
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do… — Paul Gallico
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just… — Gilbert Highet
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht
Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will — Malcolm Forbes
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and… — William Saroyan
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them — Anne Tyler
It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was… — Maurice Nicoll
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. — Wayne Thiebaud
We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on… — Nora Ephron
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for… — Antonya Nelson
Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia… — George Mason
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it.… — Kevin J. Anderson
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role. — Sydney Schanberg
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side… — Yitzhak Rabin
Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that… — Dwight L. Moody
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on… — Marlene Dietrich
The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was… — John Updike
So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper.… — George Carlin

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