Clip Quote by Philip Pullman

A paper should be like a mini skirt: long enough to cover everything, but short enough to keep it interesting.

— Hemant Smarty

Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you…

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the…

— Sadie Jones

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination.…

— Truman Capote

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who…

— Ulysses S. Grant

My pockets got paper on paper. This shit just look like a novel.

— Big Sean

I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I…

— David Quammen

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

— Ruskin Bond

I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper.

— Akira Toriyama

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

— Jerry Brown

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to…

— Garrett Hedlund