Blank Quotes

• As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Character
  • Black
  • Desire

• The mind is never blank. If it were… how would you know?

  

  Ed Foreman
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Blank

• A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

  

  Nicholas Allen Jones
  • Possibility
  • Exciting
  • Invention

• Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Write
  • Novelist
  • Pundits

• When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Degrees
  • Compare
  • Individualism

• Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Parent
  • Teach

• There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Meaning
  • Blank

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