#pap

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#blood #drops #easy #forehead #form

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. ↗

— Mary Docter

#been #haven #i #know #lot

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#between #even #fountain #fountain pen #i

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#because #capture #create #excited #fun

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough. ↗

— Elton John

#good #good relationship #i #just #know

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #being #disorderly #drunk #expect

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#bad #clinging #family #like #love

What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions. ↗

— Merton Miller

#answer #capital #conditions #happened #ideal

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#going #good #good job #happen #happened

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#audience #because #believed #classmates #could