Blank Quote by Lydia Davis Download Open image “Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.” — Lydia Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blank Goodness Mind Psychology Sometimes Thank goodness Time Writing
It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself. — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant. — Jim Root Copy Share Image
I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“But on that particular day I did not even begin to feel interested in this chore, and was suddenly more deeply bored than I… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“because she couldn’t write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn” — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Everything was sharper, clearer, and closer, as though, before, I had been seeing only little bits at a time, not all of it, of… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“He did not know exactly when to thank his hostess after attending a dinner or a weekend party. In his uncertainty, he would thank… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“There was no confusion of our bodies. I knew which arm was his and which mine, and which leg, and which shoulder. I did… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“So it’s not really $100 a shot because it goes on all day, from the start when you wake up and feel her body… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“The people of the town, though, remained strangers: I could not realize that I must be seeing some of them over and over again,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?" Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find. — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness. — Emily Shanks Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.' — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image