“I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.” KnowsGivingIdeasProcessRoomsBrainProduceBirthQuietPaperRetiringPencilsGiving BirthPainlessQuiet RoomSharp Pencils Book:Norman Rockwell's people Source: Norman Rockwell's people
“In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.” WorldYearsWellsHeartStatesFilmSpiritBornSpaceVisionQuietPaperPhotographySolutionsSubstanceGentleRealmsChemicalsOfferingI Have LearnedPapersShutters Author:Paul Caponigro
“It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.” Can DoInterestingQuietPaperSignificantQuiet Life Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“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.” WorldWritingMeanImportantBookHelpingShowsMotivationalEarthDiesReadingCommunityComfortQuietPaperMiracleBehaveWho We AreFlatsSquares Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.” EyeDarkNiceSeeingQuietPaperTownsLooking BackHer EyesEyes Looking Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.” NeedsWritingFirstsVoiceEffortTerribleQuietPaperI've LearnedGood WritingVoices In My Head Author:Anne Lamott
“All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.” PeopleWantedFacesNextLeftPartyMinutesQuietPaperCornersGet UpKneesHatsYour FaceVacuumsLeft AloneInsisting Book:Eclipse Source: Eclipse
“Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.” WantWritingStillsPastCertainMemoriesWorryQuietPaperFlowDetailsAmazed Author:Frank McCourt