Paper Quotes
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Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.
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I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.
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Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
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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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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
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You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
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Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
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If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
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Be true to what you said on paper.
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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.
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Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
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I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.
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Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.
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I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
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Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?
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I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
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My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass.
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I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.
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Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
