Top 100 Quotes About A Blank Page
#1. I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page
Rainbow Rowell
#2. If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to.
Thea Harrison
#3. 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
#4. It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
Anthony Doerr
#6. It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her ...
Sarah Cross
#8. The future is a blank page, but not a mystery.
Lisa Wingate
#9. Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.
Peter Ackroyd
#11. The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
Marc Forster
#12. Would you still read me when I become a blank page.
Jenim Dibie
#13. Writing is a solitary business. It's just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.
Shannon Celebi
#14. Don't leave your life a blank page. Make each word count and leave behind something worth reading.
Mae East
#15. A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#16. You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#17. I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.
Dan Brown
#18. It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.
Matt Haig
#19. Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations.
Francine Prose
#20. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
Nora Roberts
#22. Nobody's mind ever remains a blank page, however carefully they are locked away from the world.
Frances Hardinge
#23. Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.
Michel Houellebecq
#24. If you're a lumberjack, you know what to do. You see trees, and you still have a job! If you're a writer, you see a blank page. You don't know if you still have a job. You might have great ideas - you may have no ideas.
Tim Schafer
#25. And when my heart is beating
too rapidly in the dark,
I will go downstairs in a robe,
open it up to a blank page,
and try to settle on the blue lines
whatever it is that seems to be the matter.
Billy Collins
#26. Nothing listens as well as a blank page.
Shaun Hick
#27. While there may be 'bad' days - even 'bad' weeks - keep going, write something else, go and read (research!) or take a complete break, whatever works for you. But in the long run, persevere, and keep on writing. A blank page won't write itself!
Sherry Gloag
#28. Within these margins I find my serenity - with a blank page and a pencil, I am set free.
Jordyn McKenzie
#29. For the first time in my life, my future was a blank page. It was perfect. And beyond scary.
S.T. Bende
#30. Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.
John C. Parkin
#31. I sat down, turning the pages of my notebook in search of a blank page, in the dim light of my room. The arrival of nightfall had invited leafy shadows to play hide and seek in the glass reflection of the window. I smiled as one of these mischievous shadows crept across the page in a midnight dance.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#32. A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.
Farshad Asl
#33. Writing poetry is like an opiate. When you get hooked on a blank page in the notebook, that attracts you like fireflies in the night, and you just have to translate your thoughts into words.
I'm addicted to words.
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
#34. I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss ... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.
Ron Koertge
#35. Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
Michael Beck
#37. A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
Andrew O'Hagan
#38. There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
Nikki Grimes
#39. Having the great opportunity on a daily basis to sit in front of a blank page is terrifying, and at the same time really exciting. I can't actually get better at my job, because every time you finish something you start with a blank page, with nothing.
Hans Zimmer
#40. Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
Laini Taylor
#42. As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.
Richard Castle
#43. A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential ... It is a masterpiece in waiting
yours.
A.A. Patawaran
#44. Good can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What's important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it's good or bad is beside the point. Make art.
Austin Kleon
#45. it's never too late to change. Every day is a blank page, and your story has yet to be written.
Amy Zhang
#46. A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
Nicky Wire
#47. Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.
Alex Abreu
#48. I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all - what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page - do they want someone to write on it?
Wilfrid
#49. The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
Harold Stephen Black
#50. Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.
Faye Kellerman
#52. She took out a third blank sheet. It seemed to beg her to fill it. A blank page was nothing but potential, pointless until it was used.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. After tonight I will not date put pen to paper again. A blank page to me is like a drink to an alcoholic.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
#54. Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
Julia Cameron
#55. One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
Anurag Kashyap
#56. White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
Stephen Sondheim
#57. I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.
Sylvia Plath
#58. Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.
Christina Baldwin
#59. There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing.
Philip M. Parker
#60. The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.
Bob Weir
#61. I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.
R.J. Dennis
#63. Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels
#64. A writer's courage: to leave a blank page blank.
Marty Rubin
#66. I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.
Dolph Lundgren
#67. You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
#68. The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.
Stan Brakhage
#69. Looking out over the expanse ahead I saw not an empty wasteland but something simpler: a blank page on which I would go on.
Paul Kalanithi
#70. It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
Simon Travaglia
#71. The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories ... They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.
George Gilder
#72. Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.
Brad Paisley
#73. The best part of being a little child is having a long blank page ahead that he can fill it with almost everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless.
Joanne Fluke
#75. If tragedy does not ensnare a man, if affliction does not agitate him, if love does not lay him down in the cradle of dreams, then his life is like a blank, white page in the book of existence. In that year I saw the
Kahlil Gibran
#76. 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
#77. If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
#78. A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.
Keri Smith
#79. I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.
Martin McDonagh
#80. What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.
Jennifer Gilmore
#81. Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
Darin Strauss
#82. The truth was, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist was the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two had in common was the blank page.
Lynsey Addario
#83. There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.
Anne Lamott
#84. The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.
Joan Rivers
#85. If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#86. I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene' ... excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank?
Harlan Ellison
#87. Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.
Marcelo Goianira
#88. There's a monster at the end of this book. It's the blank page where the story ends and you're left alone with yourself and your thoughts.
Cecil Baldwin
#89. You can fix a bad page. You can't fix a blank one.
Nora Roberts
#90. I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.
Victoria Wood
#91. A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.
Michael Piller
#92. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet - so deadly sad - that to read one line of it would dissolve any courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank: something like the world when the deluge was gone by.
Charlotte Bronte
#93. In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
Jose Saramago
#94. It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#95. It is so painful for a historian to begin his tale convinced no one will believe him, that if I thought belief had quite vanished from the face of this earth, I would leave this page blank.
Anne Gedeon LaFitte
#96. I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
Nora Roberts
#97. 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
#98. You slogged from the terrifying emptiness of the blank page to the two most beautiful words in a writer's vocabulary: The End.
Lisa Cron
#99. When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn't over yet. Our story may have come to a close, but your story is still yet to be told.
Make it a story worthy of you
Renee Ahdieh
#100. Every day life adds a new page in my life...but the sad part is...every page is Blank...
Bharat Singh
