Quotes of: Blanks Keyword

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

Shannon Celebi

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

Charlie Hunter

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

Harold Stephen Black

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Alison Gopnik

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

The Blank Book

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

The Blank Book

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

The Blank Book

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

Athol Fugard

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Gaston Bachelard

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, "Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?" The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-si...

Jim Rohn

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

The Blank Book

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

Prince of Thorns

I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.

Charles Krauthammer

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same tim...

Ricky Schroder

Branch Rickey: It's another opening day, Harold. All future, no past. Harold Parrott: It's a blank page, sir.

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Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great differ...

Sharon Kay Penman

Eirik: I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say. Harry: Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault. ...

In Bruges