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“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.”

Writing Stuff Rooms Paper Sitting Empty Performing Interviews

Author:Randy Newman

“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.”

Ifs Art Use Stuff Teaching Materials Please Waste Paper Empty Paint Pens Jars

Author:Danny Gregory

“Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.”

Book Today Black White Silence Paper Empty Screens Canvas Sheets

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“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”

Ifs Paper Empty Observation Blank Canvas Sheets Empty Canvas

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.”

Writing Mind May Moving Pleasure Strange Paper Empty Crowds Fabulous Herds Of My Mind Corridors

Book:Personal Pleasures

Source: Personal Pleasures

“Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!”

Past Paper Shadow Empty Drawing

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.”

Children Made Stills Common Paper Empty Planes Seats Empty Seats

Author:Buddy Wakefield

“Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.”

Ifs Book Would Be Left Paper Empty Passages

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.”

People Ends Stories Waiting Paper Pages Empty Setting Settings Pens

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.”

Years Firsts Littles Ideas Proud Drink Paper Rivers Empty Green Locals No Idea Titles Phrases Songwriting Plastic Mary Fountain Notebook Really Cool Soda Slabs Fillers

Author:John Fogerty

“A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.”

Silence Paper Musician Empty Painter Canvas

Author:Keith Richards

“The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. 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.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Might Turns Next Waiting Painting Band Paper Empty Sentences Observation Blank Canvas Portraits Sheets Masterpiece Arrivals Warrants Empty Canvas

Author:Lewis H. Lapham