Language Quote by Joan Didion Download Open image “The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.” — Joan Didion ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Minute Paper Possibilities Start Words You
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written. — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper. — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
If I have a writing problem, the minute I step away, there's a solution. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes. — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
