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30 "Blank Pages" Quotes

"For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion."

--- Adam Gopnik

#Blank #Emotion #Screens

"The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more."

--- Alberto Manguel

#Realizing #Blank #Book

"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

#Blank #Understood #Risk

"There is no beginning that is a blank page."

--- Amitava Kumar

#Blank #Blank Pages #Pages

"Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant."

--- Amos Oz

#Blank #Toothless #Sitting

"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

#Eight #Blank #Three Years

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

--- Anton Chekhov

#Writing Fiction #Writing Love #Successful Writing

"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

#Blank #Blank Pages #Pages

"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

#Thinking #Lasts #Blank

"I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament."

--- Benjamin Disraeli

#Blank #Testament #Blank Pages

"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 Sheed

#Blank #Staring #Blank Pages

"The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad."

--- Whit Stillman

#Creation #Blank #Sells

"Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty."

--- Blaine Hogan

#Blank #Blank Pages #Pages

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

--- Vladimir Nabokov

#Blank #Being There #Invisible

"Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page a blank page. But if you're going to make the page a blank page, it's not just the absence of something, it has to become something else. It has to be material, it has to be this thing. I wanted to turn a page into a thing."

--- Vito Acconci

#Blank #Blank Pages #Pages

"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

#Blank #Staring #Blank Pages

"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

#Blank #Scary #Blank Pages

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."

--- Brad Paisley

#Resolution #New Year #Blank

"It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer."

--- Bryan Fuller

#Blank #Blank Pages #Pages

"The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book."

--- Timothy Hallinan

#Blank #Book #Enemy

"The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up."

--- Tim Winton

#Blank #Blank Pages #Pages

"The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes in a scene (and) what motivates characters. When you bring a scene to class - as an actor with your scene partner - you have to do everything. There's no producer, set decorator or anything like that. You and you partner have to do everything and that's kind of like facing the blank page as a writer."

--- Carol Higgins Clark

#Scene #Blank #Stakes

"I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page."

--- Charles Busch

#Helpful #Scene #Blank

"The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart."

--- Taiye Selasi

#Blank #Passports #Blank Pages

"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."

--- T. S. Eliot

#Resolution #Lasts #New Year

"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

#Blank #Emotion #Said

"Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book."

--- Christina Baldwin

#Blank #Book #Blank Pages

"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

#Blank #Nothing Matters #Blank Pages

"White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities."

--- Stephen Sondheim

#Blank #Blank Canvas #Blank Pages

"White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony."

--- Stephen Sondheim

#Tension #Blank #Order

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