Paper Quotes
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White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
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Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.
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Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
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International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
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Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
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All of us conceal in conversation clues to personality which we happily reveal on paper, because the added distance of writing lends protection and encourages the risks of intimacy.
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To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.
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What can this piece of paper do; imagine?
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At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
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Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
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Writing is thinking on paper.
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I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
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Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
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My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
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It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
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The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.
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There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible.
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I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.
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I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
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I followed Shoji Hamada, because I guess Alix MacKenzie and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.
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I've done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There's always another interview to do. It's quite something, I have to say.
