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“I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.”

Thinking Two Body Able Certain Three Voice Fiction Five Paper Profession Fiction Writers Schizophrenic

Author:Ridley Pearson

“I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Protect Paper Direct Do It Yourself

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.”

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Author:David Talbot

“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.”

“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.”

“You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.”

“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”

Thinking Men Simple Ability Achieve Paper Decent Pens Yarn

Author:Graham Moore

“I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.”

Thinking Wells Book Home Light Reader Paper Eras Evolve Cherish Candle Lit Book Readers Paper Books

Author:Steve Leveen

“I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.”

People Thinking Want Writing Heart Paper

Author:Tim Gane

“No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.”

Thinking Needs Years Doe Today Past Science Common Study Students Paper Research Years Ago Scientist Originals Nuclear Contemporary Substance Fifty Agreement Papers Physicist Textbooks

Author:C.P. Snow

“It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.”

Thinking Writing I Can Sometimes Play Remember Sound Pieces Amount Paper Shocking Channeling

Author:Ryan Adams

“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Heart Enough Earth White Poor Sea Paper Ink

Author:John Lyly

“I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.”

Thinking Firsts May Teach Students Paper Finals Hardest Editing Vague Hardest Thing Identification

Author:M. H. Abrams

“I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.”

Thinking Way Writing I Can Hard Dies Stuff Worst Paper Papers Blogs Columns Ephemeral Peru

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.”

Thinking Men Want Needs Writing Paper Newspapers Edited

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Looks Able Know How Fool Paper

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.”

People Thinking Trying Ideas Matter Reading Technology Paper Digital New Technology

Author:Paul Auster

“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.”

People Thinking Years Long Would Be Forget Four Paper News Twenties Decades Disappointed Papers Dropping Finishing Bad News Expectancy Life Expectancy Convocation

Author:Adrian Tan

“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Looks Song Three Pieces Four Mountain Paper Pressure Climbs Blank Belts

Author:Martin Gore

“Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.”

Thinking Way Made Interest Talking Wonderful Masters Paper Sitting Drawing Wander Documents Scrap Dutch Saloons Wandering Around Way Of Talking

Author:John French Sloan

“I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.”

Thinking Believe Life Is Values Black White Color Paper Pages Things To Do Remove Going Away Bad Things Black And White Reproducing Actual Life Xerox

Author:Ursula Burns

“I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.”

Thinking Giving Humans Facts Use Human Beings White Color Paper Skins Importance Give Me Murder Presses Impression Despite Stakes Glorify Hostage

Author:Malcolm X

“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

“Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).”

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Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry

“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.”

Thinking Should Book Use Turns Deals Cutting Tree Industry Amount Paper Impact Distance Marketing Enormous Traditional Electricity Ecological Retail

Author:William Gibson

“You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash.”

Thinking Knows Feels Whole Age Jobs Death Dies Missing Paper Lonely Prepared Sorry Cash Papers Liquid Missing Something Feel Sorry For You

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Mother Reading Winning Steps Enemy One Day Paper I Realized Newspapers Oscars Papers

Author:Ferran Adria

“When you can sit down with a plain sheet of paper in front of you and make some notes, and, little by little, you see it take shape and become a concept for a movie or a TV show. That's a real thrill. You watch it go from notes on a paper to a meeting with writers and directors and actors. I can't think of anything that's more exciting.”

Thinking Littles I Can Real Shows Actors Watches Fronts Tvs Shapes Directors Paper Concepts Exciting Meetings Notes Tv Shows Thrill Sheets

Author:Stan Lee

“I don't think you ever want to be too settled, because once you become settled, you lose a lot of your drive. I mean, I am settled off the court; the business side of things, the papers, contracts and all of that, but there are a lot things that I need to work on, on the court, like my free-throw shooting, which has been terrible. I need to work on being more demanding in the post. My teammates are going to come to me and I just need to go out there and score in the post, which will open up things for our guards.”

Thinking Want Needs Mean Has Beens Sports Sides Loses Terrible Paper Court Posts Shooting Score Contracts Papers Teammate Free Throw

Author:Andrew Bogut

“Caron, Even though you just got here a few months ago, We've grown so close over these last few weeks And, I can remember, When you first got here, You wrote a piece of paper in my locker... I don't know why I'm crying so much man... You wrote a piece of paper in my locker that said, "KD MVP." And that's after we had lost two or three straight. And I don't really say much in those moments, But I remember that. I go home and I think about that stuff man. When you got people behind you, You can do whatever. And I thank you man, I appreciate you.”

“People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.”

People Thinking Way Found Literature Paper Opening Papers Diaries Opening Up

Author:Neil Sheehan

“On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.”

Thinking Team Basketball Paper Nba Best Team

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.”

“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 change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.”

Thinking Different Sometimes Sound Change Fire Paper Died Rose Woods Dry

Book:Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

“Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.”

People Thinking Way Want Helping Numbers Quality Company Seeing Communication Paper Approach Add Communicate Flying Faster Apples Collections Processing

Author:Steve Jobs

“I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Believe Facts Able Reading I Believe Pieces Example Paper Spoken Word

Author:Sarah Kay

“And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .”

Thinking Firsts Book Light Able Felt Week Paper Prison Endure Circles Evening Cells Sheets Lamps Without You

Author:Tadeusz Borowski

“But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.”

Thinking World Writing Persons Happens Nice Bears Paper News Burden Extremes Silly Serials Nice Person

Book:The Taming of a Scottish Princess

Source: The Taming of a Scottish Princess

“I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Lying Morning Fronts Paper Newspapers Flash

Author:Angelina Jolie

“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

“I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.”

Thinking Knows Feels Book Real Lasts Support Industry Paper Smell Printed Real Books Printed Books

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Whole Company Technology Paper Urges

Author:Steve Wozniak

“In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that lies between that person as a person, and the things which they're producing on the paper. I don't know whether I see things in too complex a fashion, but often people will do things which are not actually their nature, but will do things because they think that's what they should do.”

People Thinking Knows Should Persons Important Lying Study Pieces Fashion Paper Complexes Studying Music

Author:Richard Meale

“Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.”

Thinking Writing Looks May Book Ends Literature Goal Perfect Paper Pages Perfection Unattainable May Not Be Perfect

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill", if they bother writing about me at all. I think that's fine. I'm happy to do the work.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Action Fine Directors Paper Hills Bother

Author:Walter Hill

“Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.”

Thinking World Way Writing Stills Three Speech Paper Discovery Aspect Originals Invention Prose Originality Three Words Professional Writing

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.”

People Thinking Pleasure Paper Woods Paper Money

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.”

“There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.”

Thinking Book Reason Kids Reading Paper Discovery Touching Printed

Author:Josh Radnor

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