“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.” WritingYearsTwoThreeReadingHoursFiveGraceWeekTeachingPagesResearchEightThree YearsBlankBlank PagesLaying Down Author:Anthony Doerr
“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.” YearsHas BeensFatherBirthPagesMovedLawyerCopiesBlankBack AgainBlank PagesNatal Author:Peter Ackroyd
“Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.” KnowsWritingFirstsBookFictionNovelInformationWindPagesEmptyDataAppetiteNow And ThenBlankGreedyBlank Pages Author:John Updike
“When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.” WritingFirstsMeanHas BeensLiteraturePagesFilledBlankBlank Pages Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante