"I feel much safer faced with a blank……" — Selima Hill

"I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person."

— Selima Hill

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13 Quotes by Selima Hill

Selima Hill has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent…
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives…
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to…
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say…
When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding.…
I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced...
Poetry is a big space and I love it.
There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort…
The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being…
I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or…
I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.
What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past…

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More Blank Quotes

This quote is filed under Blank Quotes, one of 539 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes.… — Amy Adams
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.… — John Banville
I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? — Milton Berle
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful… — Elizabeth Blackwell
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were… — Diane Cilento
I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more… — Diablo Cody
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. — Brad Paisley
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning… — Laozi
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and… — Francois Fenelon
Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc. — Drake

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