Editing Quote by Diana Athill

“I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what…

— Samantha Young

“Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.”

— Navonne Johns

“Beautiful gifts sometimes come wrapped in ugly paper.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I thought I was taking a boring piece of paper and making it look cool, when in fact, I was taking something cool and…

— Gordon Jack

“To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small paper booklets.…

— Syrie James

“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten…

— Marcel Proust

“The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked.”

— Michael Connelly

“Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper,…

— Elizabeth Brundage

“We’d been given a gift and our job now was to unwrap it…and see what’s inside.”

— Todd Burpo

“Next Christmas he was going to open this shabby sack of hers... and put something in the money compartment. She would fritter it away,…

— Josephine Tey

“Before our vacation, the idea of keeping a diary and scribbling my thoughts on paper seemed silly and stuck-up. And besides it was usually…

— Henry H. Roth

“She was a mystery package to be unravelled in the nicest possible way.”

— Francine Howarth