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“Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.”

Hands Cities New York Grew Reader Paper Grew Up My Family Sacred Seven Newspapers New York City

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.”

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Author:David Hockney

“What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!”

Hands Time Speak Sun Paper Slave Ridiculous Circles Curse Silver Dictatorship Overrated Second Hand Knobs

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.”

Art Hands Religious Class Objects Paper Instruments Sacred Touching Pencils Ceremony Art Class

Author:Joan Miro

“And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.”

Want Feels Years Two Hands Lasts Father Left Mines Dad Paper Late Letters Sick Trade Filled My Dad Busy Connected Legacy Too Late Touched Two Years Hug Notebook Too Busy Handwriting

Author:Lakshmi Pratury

“About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.”

Men Kind Stories Hands Spirit Reading Grief Paper Pages Twenties I Realized Testimony Foreheads Fourteen Luke Gazing Charismatic Hand Holding

Author:Blake Butler

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.”

Ifs Writing Long Hands Would Be White Novel Too Much Paper Computer Mark Sticks Edits

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.”

Persons Hands Reading Given Healthy Mets Paper Yoga Constitution Independence Buddhist Declaration Papers Rama Dose Federalist Federalist Papers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.”

Thinking Men World Giving Years Children Sometimes Whole Hands Three Break Records Four Century This World He Man Paper Lawyer Titles Four Years Clients Estates Papers Attorney Acres

Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage

“Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.”

Writing Sometimes Hands Song Paper Guitar Devices Melody Pens Audio Great Lyric Audio Recording

Author:Jon Foreman

“I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.”

Knows Made Dream Body Hands Earth Mother Speak Paper Bird Tongue Pens

Book:Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

Source: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

“Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?”

Want Writing Enough Hands Lines Paper Letters Command Vain Evoke

Book:Nadine and Other Poems

Source: Nadine and Other Poems

“I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.”

Thinking Knows Hands Kids Poor Grew Paper Clothes Grew Up Canada Toronto Forged Second Hand New Clothes Second Hand Clothes

Author:Paulo Costanzo

“There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?”

Two Hands Social Paper Okay Nervous Shakes Auditions Wrecks Social Network

Author:Armie Hammer

“Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.”

Needs Writing Long Hands Running Lasts Lines Paper Refuge Pencils

Author:Antonio Damasio

“The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.”

Men Hands Law Paper

Author:James Harrington

“Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.”

Ifs Giving I Can Hands Break Paper Give Me Lawyer Loyalty Shakes Loyal Loyal Friend

Author:Jerry Lewis

“Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.”

Want Hands Joy Creation Possibility Paper Infinite I Want You

Author:Akira Yoshizawa

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.”

Men Giving Mind Hands Form Color Painting Shapes Paper Essence Bases Edges Drawing Command Outlines

Author:Alexander Eliot

“Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.”

Way Years Hands Interesting Boys Design Paper Paint Come Up Wraps My Boys Interesting Ways

Author:Kelly Wearstler

“It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other. Experiment and Theory in Physics”

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Author:Max Born

“I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.”

Knows Book Hands School Mother Know How Pieces Taught Paper Adults Library Shelves

Author:Joan Didion

“Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.”

People Feels Hands Pain Water Paper Hot Senses Burning Touched Paper Money

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.”

Writing Hands Solitude Normal Paper Method Huts

Author:Sally Potter

“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].”

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Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.”

Years Firsts Believe Two Facts Hands I Believe Brain Teach Students Paper Connections I Believe In Pencils Drafting

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that.”

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Author:David McCullough

“One of the things that will probably need to be addressed is in the treatment of history, i.e. the Presidential Papers Act. If they can act with impunity, if they know that what they're doing is not going to see the light of day anytime in their lifetime, if they have the right to withhold information from the public, then presidents are given a vastly freer hand.”

Ifs Knows Needs Hands Light Given President Information Paper Lifetime Presidential Treatment Papers Impunity

Author:Ted Gup

“The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.”

“I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.”

Said Hands School Left Pay Cutting Week Streets Paper Thirds Factories Load Auditions They Said Coronation Paper Cuts

Author:Suzanne Shaw

“[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about. What you are about. Don't even take a camera into your hands before you figure that out.”

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Author:Tina Barney

“There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.”

Knows Hands Three Found Strong Paper Computer Tools Tables Guitar Files Paragraph Typewriters Guitar Playing Folders

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.”

Done Hands Reading Middle Directors Paper Auditions Casting Casting Directors

Author:Kevin Hart

“I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right.”

Feels Sometimes Hands Difficult Cold Paper Drawing Gloves

Author:Jason Polan

“I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.”

Writing Stills Hands Type Paper Computer Pens Rewriting

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I have a lot to say and feel. I want to process those and write it down on paper and put my hands on the keyboard before they become the past.”

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Author:Angela Aki

“If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter. It doesn't cost money to write. It costs money to make art. So I would just write. I would hand out stories in the classes in high school. And the teacher would say, "Whatever you do, don't become a writer."”

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Author:Tama Janowitz

“I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.”

Ifs Giving I Can Hands Running Deals Break Paper Commitment Give Me Lawyer Loyalty Commit Shakes Locks Loyal Friend Loyalty And Friendship

Author:Jerry Lewis

“When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.”

Writing Stills Book Hands Kids Reading Special Paper Old Fashioned Tactile Reading For Kids

Author:Rick Riordan

“France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.”

Hands Fall Money Tears Travel Paper France Falling Apart Toilets Toilet Paper

Book:Billy Wilder: Interviews

Source: Billy Wilder: Interviews

“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.”

“It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. ... I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails.”

“I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.”

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Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question, is in charge of my writing, in a gigantic minuscule game which nobody has yet described. It is that which at this instant, issuing out of a labyrinthine tangle of yeses and nos, makes my hand run along a certain path on the paper, mark it with these volutes that are signs: a double snap, up and down, between two levels of energy, guides this hand of mine to impress on the paper this dot, here, this one.”

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Author:Primo Levi

“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“He had a newspaper rolled in his hand, bearing down on me like a puppy that had piddled on the carpet. "Bad Chloe,” I muttered. "What?” I’d forgotten his bionic hearing. “Bad Chloe.” I gestured at the rolled-up paper and put out my hand. “Get it over with.”

Hands Paper Forgotten Hearing Newspapers Carpet Puppy Chloe Bionics

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“When a horse falls, foam comes out of its mouth. When it falls, the legs of the horse thrash and the horse is no good... So somebody shoots it. The horse turns into glue. A machine puts the glue into bottles and children squeeze the bottles to get the glue out and stick bits of paper onto cards. Glue gets on the children's hands and the children eat the glue. And the children become the horse.”

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Author:Maureen Medved

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