Top 100 Quotes About 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. I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page.
Jenim Dibie
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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. Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.
Steven Pressfield
#8. The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
David Almond
#9. Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.
Brad Paisley
#10. Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.
Regina Brett
#11. 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
#13. Losing yourself in words is like finding yourself stuck in the
pages. But never forget for every blank page you have the
opportunity to release your own imagination.
Katrina Thompson
#14. The future is a blank page, but not a mystery.
Lisa Wingate
#15. 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
#16. 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
#20. One thing I knew about the novelist's task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.
Philip Sington
#21. The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God.
G.K. Chesterton
#22. 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
#23. Would you still read me when I become a blank page.
Jenim Dibie
#24. Writing is a solitary business. It's just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.
Shannon Celebi
#25. Don't leave your life a blank page. Make each word count and leave behind something worth reading.
Mae East
#26. 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
#27. A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.
Monique Wittig
#36. 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
#37. The blank page is my canvas, give me enough and I'll change the world.
Unknown
#39. 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
#41. Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.
Natasha Bedingfield
#42. As I stare at the blank page, I am at once awash inwords but unable to find the ones I want to use.
Carrie Ryan
#43. On the blank page all things are possible.
Marty Rubin
#44. It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.
Matt Haig
#45. 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
#46. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
Nora Roberts
#48. 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
#49. Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.
Barbara Case Speers
#50. Nobody's mind ever remains a blank page, however carefully they are locked away from the world.
Frances Hardinge
#51. When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror ... that's when you know you're doing it right.
Dave Matthes
#52. 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
#53. It's the silence that scares me. It's the blank page on which I can write my own fears.
Mark Lawrence
#54. 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
#55. Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page,
are letters up to no good,
clutches of clauses so subordinate
they'll never let her get away.
From, The Joy of Writing, Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska
#56. 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
#57. The blank page is the great equalizer and grand opportunity for continued learning and growth.
K.J. Kilton
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Nothing listens as well as a blank page.
Shaun Hick
#62. 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
#63. Many people have a gift for language that flows when they are talking and dries up when they are confronted with the blank page,
Francine Prose
#64. The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
Taiye Selasi
#66. Within these margins I find my serenity - with a blank page and a pencil, I am set free.
Jordyn McKenzie
#67. For the first time in my life, my future was a blank page. It was perfect. And beyond scary.
S.T. Bende
#68. By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
Michael Morpurgo
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds. The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day.
Gregory David Roberts
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. The answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...
John Geddes
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. 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
#81. There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
Nikki Grimes
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#86. Only the blank page need never apologize.
Marty Rubin
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential ... It is a masterpiece in waiting
yours.
A.A. Patawaran
#90. 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
#91. it's never too late to change. Every day is a blank page, and your story has yet to be written.
Amy Zhang
#92. A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
Nicky Wire
#93. 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
#94. The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.
J.L. Bond
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
Harold Stephen Black
#98. Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.
Faye Kellerman
#99. For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
Lincoln Child
