Paper Quotes

2658 Paper quotes by 1881 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin
Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper. — Harry Kemelman
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
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
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
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. — Beryl Bainbridge
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all. — William Zinsser
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
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg
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
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
You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind. — Unknown Author
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content. — Cecil Balmond
I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve! — Milton Berle

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