Answer Quote by Harold Stephen Black

“The boat spelled enveloping safety, a return to the womb. But when the men came ashore, that was birth: exposure. The sky's a hideous…

— Frank Herbert

“The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.”

— J.L. Bond

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the…

— Michael Winter

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

— Edna O'Brien

“The boat was a type called an Optimist dinghy. It is a beginner's boat. If that little boat had been able to speak, no…

— Margareta Magnusson

The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

— Taiye Selasi

“The letter Q for question, seared into human flesh. As I started to sleepwrite my questions, the margin seemed to expand. The paper throbbed…

— Diane Setterfield

“The boat—no, it was a ship, as one of the crew had explained, since it had a solid superstructure and was stabilized by ballast,”

— Jack L. Chalker

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

— Arthur Machen

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old…

— Jim Bishop