Paper Quotes

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

I read in the paper today the list of the most popular boys' names in Britain. The first was Jack, the second was Mohammed. That makes me feel a little bit worried.

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)

No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures.

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

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

Trust me, Joe. You’re not a cowboy. The only cows you ever saw as a kid came under a plastic wrap in the grocery store or in a paper wrapped from McDonald’s. (Tee)

You know it doesn’t work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.

Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.