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“I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.”

Writing Cases Minutes Needed Paper Letters Scared Pockets Forty Pens Coming Back Bumps Paper And Pen

Author:Daniela Pestova

“I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.”

People Ifs Knows Turns Waiting Streets Minutes Television Paper

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear”

Years Long Written Minutes Paper Years Ago Filled Disappear Thirty Abandoned Long Ago Yards Masterpiece Dungeons Handwriting Bastille

Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

“The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.”

Minutes Possibility Paper Eliminating Words On Paper

Author:Joan Didion

“Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.”

Wells Reading Minutes Paper Musician Series Great Music Great Musician

Author:Dodie Smith

“When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.”

“In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Mind Minutes Giving Up Paper Constant Fingers Track My Way Things To Do Pens Yearning Of My Mind Keyboards Hankering

Author:Mary Garden

“Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.”

Ifs Needs Play Girl Father Chance Boys Minutes Paper Enjoyed Fifteen Zoos Boy And Girl Being A Father

Book:The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care

Source: The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.”

Years Two White Silence Minutes Solitude Paper Terror Desks White Paper

Author:Erica Jong

“At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.”

Stills Kids Minutes Paper Draws Restaurants Explosions Unicorn Markers Octopus

Author:Julie Bowen