Paper Quotes

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.

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.

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

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.

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.

But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well...

I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

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.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

An idea on paper to a reality in large part.

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or my experiences. I'm very detailed - it's like a script.

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.