Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.
I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.
P.L. Travers: It is blasphemy to drink tea from a paper cup.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
’s discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of —such penetrating minds as and —were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the h...
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 more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost to the point of making us sick. Do you know a work of literature written in the last, say, fifteen years that you think...
During the year of 2015 stay grounded. How? Each night before you go to sleep, write a word/expression capturing a positive state of mind on a sheet of paper. Fold the paper in a V and prop it on your nightstand beside your bed so you will see it the...
There should be more or less of a jumble in your head or on your note paper after the first time and even after the second. Much that you will think of in connection will come to nothing and be wasted. But some of it ought to go together under one id...
(March 2010 ) In terms of story, the only audience I have in mind is me. I’m very much aware that I can’t please everyone when it comes to story, so I might as well try to please myself. But in terms of communication with the reader, I am very aw...
Howl: So, what do you have in your pocket, Sophie? Old Sophie: Huh? [Finds a folded piece of paper] Old Sophie: What is this? Howl: Give it to me. [paper burns leaving marks on the table] Markl: Scorch marks! Howl, can you read them? Howl: That is an...
