Blank Pages Quotes

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

  Brad Paisley

  Motivational, New Year, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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• you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Pages, Blank

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Laozi

  New Year, Happy Life, Years

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• 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.

  Douglas Pagels

  Success, New Year, New Day

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• A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Writing, Giving

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Pages, Blank

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• You can fix anything but a blank page.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Pages, Blank

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• The blank page gives us the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Pages

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

  Irvine Welsh

  Literature, Pages, Blank

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• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Blank Mind, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Stephen King

  Kings, Writing, Doors

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

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

  Blaine Hogan

  Looks, Pages, Blank

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• 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.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• 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

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Struggle, Writing, Typewriters

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• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You can't edit a blank page

  Nora Roberts

  Pages, Blank, Edits

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• 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.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Stars, Book, Dark

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• 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.

  Anthony Doerr

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith

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

  Douglas Pagels

  New Year, New Day, Pages

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• Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Father, Years, Pages

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• It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Latin, Book

  "Evaristo Carriego" by Jorge Luis Borges, (Ch. 3), 1930.

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• 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.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Friendship, Grandchildren, Talking

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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