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“Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.”

Want Needs Writing Mind Children Helping Stories Pages Paint Short Story

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Five Directors Pages Tools Paint Dialogue

Author:Todd Phillips

“I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.”

Writing Ends Joy Artist Reading Behinds Scene Pages Paint Delight Sentences Paradox Behind The Scenes Palette

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.”

Years Children Stills Ends School White Written Pages Research Paint Frustration Forty Bangs Slap Mania Malady Forty Years Old

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.”

Feels Trying Looks Lasts Artist Asks Walks Comfortable Pages Paint Shoulders Staring Manuscripts

Author:Robert Genn

“The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.”

Want Process Water Known Color Pages Paint Dry Destination Take Me

Author:Joseph Raffael

“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.”

People Way Writing Art Painting Pages Paint Finished Journal Autobiography

Author:Francoise Gilot

“Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting tension on every page. A must-read for contemporary hardboiled mystery fans who appreciate the type of terse dialogue and real life conflicts and settings Elmore Leonard so richly brought to life.”

Real Character Mystery Fans Type Conflict Pages Appreciate Paint Real Life Setting Contemporary Dialogue Settings Tension Nails Straightforward Edgy True Life Biting Lamentation

Author:Robert Dugoni

“As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.”

Knows Action Reader Pages Paint Explanation Strokes Suggestions Small Actions

Author:Mary Higgins Clark

“I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.”

People Way Writing Painting Pages Paint Finished Autobiography Diaries

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.”

Girl White Rooms Five Written Wall Paper Pages Paint Teenager Plastic Orange Notebook Scrap Tablets Napkins

Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“What's the woman doing there?" he asked. "Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job." He flipped through a few more pages of barely dressed women and classic cars. "Nick used to have magazines like this when we were kids. But without the cars." He rotated a photo sideways. "Or the bathing suits.”

Kids Jobs Used Car Pages Paint Magazines Suits Classic Scratches Covering Hood Cheaper Sideways Bathing Flipped Bathing Suits

Book:Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings

Source: Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings