Blank Pages Quotes - Page 5

• The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.

  Alberto Manguel

  Wall, Reading, Book

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• 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.

  Sarah Dessen

  Editing, Each Day, Pages

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Book, Writing

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• Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page a blank page. But if you're going to make the page a blank page, it's not just the absence of something, it has to become something else. It has to be material, it has to be this thing. I wanted to turn a page into a thing.

  Vito Acconci

  Trying, Pages, Kind

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 200.

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• The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.

  Tim Winton

  Voice, Giving, Pages

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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