#paper

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. ↗

— Mary Garden

#almost #always #anything #back #constant

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#compassion #cow #detail #examination #experience

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#currency #debase #did #doing #fictitious

I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#done #dressing #dressing room #go #guys

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's. ↗

— Mort Kondracke

#breakthrough #day #every #every day #new

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#blank #feel #get #go #go for it

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#ever #home #huge #news #newspapers

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#choose #college #creative #development #different

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#compulsion #does #else #everyone #fantasy

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#comprehensive #disputes #far-reaching #impossible #international