Top 80 Quotes About Blank Paper
#1. Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
Mark Vonnegut
#2. Time is a blank paper we paint with our best colors; is a gift to feel well and exercising happiness.
Markus Thayer
#3. When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?
Jimmy Carl Black
#4. A charming eccentric, a piece of blank paper on which the electorate could write its message: You other guys are so wasted that we decided to elect this fool for two years instead.
Stephen King
#5. I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin
#6. Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper.
Avijeet Das
#7. Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper
Paul Erdos
#8. Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it.
Santosh Kalwar
#9. When ink joins with a pen, then the blank paper
can say something. Rushes and reeds must be woven
to be useful as a mat. If they weren't interlaced, the wind would blow them away.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#10. The words in his book wormed off the pages.
Everything glittered like blank paper.
Sylvia Plath
#11. My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.
Cormac McCarthy
#12. It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.
Basma Salem
#13. All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong
Brigham Young
#14. Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
Peter Landesman
#15. I was asked the age old question today: why are you an author? I suppose there are lots of answers to this question that would suffice, but for me there is really only one answer that will do: the blank paper taunts me, and I am weak.
Richard Due
#16. That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.
Jimmy Breslin
#17. My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
Dirk Benedict
#18. What is the meaning to this life?" is a wrong question? A blank paper doesn't contain any meaning till we don't write anything meaningful on it. Similarly this universe doesn't contain any meaning without this beautiful life. So life gives meaning to this universe and we should respect it.
Brajesh Kumar
#19. Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike
#21. Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
Bobby Farrelly
#22. My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book.
Akansh Malik
#23. The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.
Theodore Dalrymple
#24. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
Thomas Jefferson
#25. I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.
Sonnia Kemmer
#26. Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages.
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile - except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
Isaac Asimov
#28. A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
Nicky Wire
#29. The world she was walking through was a pale nothingness, like a blank sheet of paper or an enormous, empty white room. It had no temperature, no smell, no texture and no taste.
Neil Gaiman
#30. My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.
Charles Yu
#31. If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I tried to make a film in which every component supports the others while giving each other space and stimulating the creation of what's yet to come.
Alex Abreu
#32. Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
William Shatner
#33. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes , make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.
Neil Gaiman
#34. I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.
Selima Hill
#35. Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
Neil Gaiman
#36. Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler
#37. If you're looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something.
Hugh MacLeod
#38. What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.
John Marsden
#39. Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.
Stephen King
#40. Dedication is writing your name on the botoom of a blank sheet of paper and handling it to the Lord for Him to fill in
Rick Renner
#41. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will
Lewis H. Lapham
#42. Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.
Henry Petroski
#43. Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.
Alvin Martin
#44. No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
Ian Rankin
#45. 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
#46. There is nothing more frightening or exciting than a blank piece of paper. Frightening because you're on your own, leaving dark tracks across that snowy plain, and exciting because no one knows your destination but yourself, and even you can't say exactly where you'll end up.
Robert McCammon
#47. And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.
Lesley Gore
#48. Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen
#49. I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.
Susan Hill
#50. We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love ... embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world.
Coco J. Ginger
#51. I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.
Bill Nighy
#52. When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.
Lesley Gore
#53. I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.
Mary Badham
#54. It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
Truman Capote
#55. Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.
Robin Hobb
#56. This was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces
Janet Fitch
#57. She knew she could never love any man the way she loved a blank sheet of paper that only she could fill.
Coco J. Ginger
#58. Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.
William Zinsser
#59. Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what's not supposed to be there.
John Prine
#60. 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
#61. You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.
Bob Seger
#62. It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
S.A. Bodeen
#63. Writing is my drug of choice. Everyday, I write. It eases out the pressure in my head and it all lands on a blank piece of paper. It has its own healing power and it gives me a feeling of contentment. Very addictive, yet it is not a criminal act.
Sonnia Kemmer
#64. As babies we're born blank sheets of paper. Not a single mark. As we grow older, lines form, then colors and patterns. Before long that paper is all sorts of brilliant. Like a kaleidoscope, no two exactly alike.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#65. A simple word or phrase on a blank sheet of paper gathers momentum as I wonder at what it could mean, where it could take place, why, and what if? . . . And then, I write.
Tyrean Martinson
#66. 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.
Haruki Murakami
#67. A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
Sidney Sheldon
#68. We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.
John Larkin
#69. It's embarrassing, how much effort it took for me to wear something that looks exactly like a blank piece of paper.
Siobhan Vivian
#70. I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
Lesley Gore
#71. I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.
Kenny Chesney
#72. Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone
Fairfax M. Cone
#73. Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#74. The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.
David Ayer
#75. But let me begin with a statement of my own passionate and indignant belief
I do not care one goddamned thing about how James Dickey conducted his personal life. I care everything about what this man wrote on blank sheets of paper when he sat alone probing the extremities of imagination.
Pat Conroy
#76. I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
Jenny Agutter
#77. Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
Stephen Sondheim
#78. 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.
Charlie Clouser
#79. Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
Margaret Atwood
#80. I am as blank as a piece of white paper in a world with no pencils.
A.S. King
