Paper Quote by Don DeLillo

“He was back at the point of departure, at the place that filled writers with dread and excitement, for this was where they must…

— Felix J. Palma

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating…

— Barbara Klein Moss

“A page lay on his desk. His fingers held a pen. With these tools he built a world. Perhaps the world he built lived…

— Max Gladstone

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

— Raymond Chandler

“As a journalist, he always felt a sense of commitment not only to the piece he had written, but to the individual, event, or…

— Bandi

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so,…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done…

— Christopher Paolini

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a…

— Charles Bukowski

“Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the world if…

— Dan Simmons