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“There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.”

Made Bigs House Doors Paper Mouths Ears Treasure Golden Giants Thick Nails Caves Entrances Ovens Keyholes Gingerbread

Author:Michael Ende

“Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.”

World Needs Firsts Children Moments Use Literature Language Voice Break Seeing Color Painting Paper First Time Optimism Bones Pens Surprising Wondrous Seeing The World

Book:Other Colours

Source: Other Colours

“Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked. We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.' Poor Joe!' Lucky Larry!”

Said Use Girl Poor Lucky Husband Paper My Husband Chests Plates Larry Having Hope Napkins

Author:Maud Hart Lovelace

“i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year's eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance”

Years Girl Drink Band Paper Management Lips Cancer Monsters Checks Former Hats New Year New Years Eve Syphilis Concussions

Book:Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

“to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.”

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.”

People Book Paper Checks Occasions Blank Scrap His Smile Blank Check

Book:Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes

Source: Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes

“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.”

Source: The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography

“I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.”

Knows Whole Use Political Values Reading Pleasure Particular Huge Amount Paper Judgment Presses Currents Articles Bias Editorials Insert Pleasure Of Reading

Author:Jo Brand

“There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper.”

Men Want Faces Desire Courses Voice Paper Commit Tone

Book:Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems

Source: Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems

“Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.”

Way Said Book Animal Taken Fire Written Paper Messages Garden Rage Dishes Uncles Aunt Lawns Supper Small Animals

Book:Blackwater

Source: Blackwater

“But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves.”

World Mind Moments Born Lines Dark Millions Saws Pieces Streets New York Broken Tomorrow Bed Paper Forests Evening Flats Bottles Milk Pencils Unimportant Carols

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.”

People Life Needs Writing Kind Shows Lines Paper Opposites Meetings Surprise Bottom Convinced Casual Tubes Toothpaste Hopscotch

Book:Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

“She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.”

Thinking Writing Dark Pieces Paper Lists Staring Plums Plum Blossoms

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.”

Writing I Can Home Reality Waiting Paper Commit Revising Always Waiting

Author:Erica Jong

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”

Men Writing Matter Eye Earth Speak Sorrow Comfort Paper Graves Dust Worms Bosoms Rainy Epitaph

Author:William Shakespeare

“He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.”

Trying Has Beens I Can Reality Pieces Paper Pencils Psychosis

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.”

Ifs Thinking Years Made Book Running Stuff Scene Paper Twenties Tables Tea Brown Pockets Pot Pool Papers Think Of You Spills Byron I Think Of You

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.”

Knows Way Want Love Wells Enough Would Be Eye Morning Love You Paper Letters Paradise Encounters Pens Know Me Declaration Old Fashioned Prelude Way I Love You

Author:Neil Gaiman

“one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.”

Knows Needs Sun Doors One Thing Car Fronts Tears Paper Sorry Wit Ems Sympathy Apology Make Me Happy Front Doors Cuz Independance Colored Girls

Author:Ntozake Shange

“It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.”

Kind Mean Book Real Sometimes Together Speak Vision Clear Magic Paper Wings Sweat Rip Thumbs

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Term Results Creation Paper Discovery Pens

Author:Gertrude Stein

“A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.”

Way Needs Long Two Paper Bird Green Notes Sheets Feathers Long Way Seals Amused Devilish Two Birds

Book:Pan

Source: Pan

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.”

“Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new! A new year ... a fresh, clean start! It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy ... let's go exploring!”

World Years Looks Bigs Lasts Night White Wonderful Possibility Paper Draws Clean Familiar Brands Wow New Year Exploring Sheets Last Night Buddy Brand New Hobbes

Author:Bill Watterson

“Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”

Knows World May Suffering Struggle Paper Ocean Wave Triumph Permanent Rising Our World Ink Memories Of A Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed.”

Feels Feelings Body Pleasure Paper Incredibles Mood Compliment Stomach Reach Out Printed Impatience

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”

Way Writing Hard Pieces Paper Blank Writers And Writing Writing By Writers Creativity And Writing Creative Writers Blank Paper Learning How To Write

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.”

Moments Dark Flower Shapes Paper Died Rose Leaving Patterns Burning Flames Wisps

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.”

Matter Stories Would Be Left Known Impossible Paper No Matter What Majority Forgotten Versions Left Out Sudan

Author:Dave Eggers

“My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.”

Made Accepting Records Events Willing Ready Paper Diaries Anything And Everything

Author:Zlata Filipović

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

Source: Parnassus On Wheels

“And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.”

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”

World Writing Mean Important Book Helping Shows Motivational Earth Dies Reading Community Comfort Quiet Paper Miracle Behave Who We Are Flats Squares

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.”

Ifs Knows Fall Found Causes Design Paper Fellows Library Knives Suspicion

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!”

Men Book Soul Strong Paper Mass Bitter Sickness Print Sentiments Flood Dead Man

Book:A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

Source: A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

“Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.”

Should Kind Two Book Law Voice Lines Magic Paper Pages Miracle Forgotten Graves Ice Volume Frozen Ink Laws Of Nature Corpses Passing Away Amber

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.”

People Knows Loneliness Paper Fullness Perplexity

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.”

World Way Writing Wanted Paper

Book:Mao II

Source: Mao II

“Paper has more patience than people.”

People Inspirational Paper

Author:Anne Frank

“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

My Own Taken Clear Paper Anxiety Conscience Prison Faults Pens Forbidden Doing Nothing

Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

World Firsts Made Might Lost Bits Ability Fire Magic Broken Promise Paper Illusion Lays Rose Dust Ashes Torn Magician Handful Consumed Dove Reunited Broken World

Author:Michael Chabon

“Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.”

Years Long Cities Magic Months Mets Paper Years Ago Thirds Dull Papers Magician Wednesday

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.”

Source: The Tent

“Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.”

Paper Chickens Be You Pants Ducks Wraps Charlie Trousers

Author:Christopher Moore

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”

Writing Jobs Winning Pieces Paper Screens Peculiar Blank Sheets Versus Blank Paper

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”

People Feels Writing Book Seems Certain Nice Military Paper Killing Novelists Ashamed Apologizing Killing Each Other Some Nice Paper Books

Author:Leonora Carrington

“I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.”

People Writing May Hate White Pieces Paper Pages Starting Agents Fooled

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.”

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