Quotes of: Blank-page Keyword

Sandy: A guy named Les is sending you flowers? Michael Dorsey: Yes. He's a friend of mine. He can't eat candy. He's diabetic. Sandy: Why is he thanking you for a lovely night in front of the fire. Michael Dorsey: [long pause] My minds a blank. Sandy:...

Tootsie

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little becau...

Adam Johnson

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid audit...

Alice Duer Miller

...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe, copied out of God's notebook. In my imagination, I saw the creator of the universe sitting in some distant corner of the sky, weaving a pat...

The Housekeeper and the Professor

It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell I was the first to open it ... I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of p...

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye needs to study not just the shape of the letters but other marks of production. The speed of the pen. The pressure of the hand on the pa...

The Thirteenth Tale

Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn ...

Pat Conroy

Don't be fool enough to think you can know a person's character after a few moments of observation. You have no idea where his life began or how his saga has unfolded thus far. Only his present state can you witness. To judge him at a glance is like ...

Richelle E. Goodrich

In his landscapes, Alex expresses the totality of everything in the universe. At the same time, within each leaf, each drop of water or human hair, he conveys a light or glow, which seems to come—how shall I put this—from another dimension. And e...

Mary E Martin

A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...

The Eyes of Alexander

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

Hiding Out

As I studied the remians of book pages, scatered among the ashes, my heart sank.

The Immortal Rules

I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.

Steven Wright Humor

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Mauprat

The greatest gift you can give an author is turning the page.

Light in the Darkness

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life

I must be alive," Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

Parsifal's Page

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Pages for You

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Natasha Trethewey

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Nicholas Negroponte

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Nicolas Sarkozy