Paper Quotes - Page 19

• I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

  Charles Stross

  Character, Track, Progress

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• I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gps, Years

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• There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.

  William Eggleston

  Thinking, Color, Years

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• 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.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.

  David McCullough

  Writing, School, Expression

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.

  Gary Dell'Abate

  Book, Writing, Should

  "The other side of Baba Booey, revealed in new book". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.victoriaadvocate.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

  Freeman Dyson

  Impossible, Reviews, Rejected

  Scientific American, Sept. 1958

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• The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Answers, Woods

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• When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.

  Michael Faraday

  Past, Offering, Firsts

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• We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Distance, Home, Creativity

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• Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

  Howard Nemerov

  Writing, Firsts, Should

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• It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

  Andres Segovia

  Lying, Doe, Discovering

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• In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.

  Jeff Greenwald

  Morning, Cat, Home

  Jeff Greenwald (2014). “Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal”, p.16, Travelers' Tales

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• Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

  Erik Naggum

  Ideas, Purpose, Lines

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• The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Beautiful, Character, Men

  "State of Humbug". Interview with Bernand Chapin, spectator.org. January 25, 2008.

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• Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.

  Matthew Freud

  Believe, Weird Things, Papers

  "Freud lifts lid on life with the Murdochs" by Jessica Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2001.

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• Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Writing, Two, Risk

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• A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

  Adam Carolla

  Practice, People, Might

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.

  Mark Gonzales

  Writing, Zines, Blogging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Signe Baumane

  Looks, Texture, Process

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or make certain sounds rhyme or just imitate the other poets they've read. But this boy, he's the real poet, because when he tries to put on paper what he's seen with his heart, he will believe deep down that there are no good words for it, no words can do it, and at that moment he will have begun to write poetry.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Real, Believe, Writing

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• Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.

  Art Alexakis

  People, Want, Helping

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• The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency.

  Henry Cabot Lodge

  Thinking, Law, Gold

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• There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Men, Iliad

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• Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

  Donald Hall

  Writing, Terrible, Courses

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