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The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of… — Audrey Niffenegger
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. — Dodie Smith
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I… — Philip K. Dick
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. — Elwyn Brooks White
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier… — Adam Johnson
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot… — Harvey Mackay
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much… — Douglas Adams
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic. — H.G. Wells
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… — Stanislaw Lem
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the… — Ernest Hemingway
It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper. — Ann Patchett
Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant… — Hilary Mantel
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones. — Junot Diaz
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana:… — Trevanian
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a… — Shirley Jackson
They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting. — David Sedaris
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside. — Nicholson Baker
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) — Raymond Chandler
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been… — Soren Kierkegaard
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in… — Harper Lee

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