Paper Quotes
2658 Paper quotes by 1881 unique authors
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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one…
— Mark Twain
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Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
— Joel Chandler Harris
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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's…
— Stephen Leacock
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I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar…
— Beryl Bainbridge
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You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.
— Alfred Kazin
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Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper.
— Harry Kemelman
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Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and…
— Anne Lamott
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Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
— Francoise Sagan
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite…
— John Steinbeck
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The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
— Bernard DeVoto
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Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
— Beryl Bainbridge
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Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.
— William Zinsser
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The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in…
— Unknown Author
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
— Carl Sandburg
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The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel…
— Edward Weston
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The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change…
— Aaron Siskind
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You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.
— Unknown Author
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I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
— Cecil Balmond
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I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!
— Milton Berle
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