Blank Pages Quotes

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

You can't revise a blank page.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

You can't edit a blank page

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

You can fix anything but a blank page.

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

There is no beginning that is a blank page.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.