I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.
Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.
When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! - the world and all of it's characters need to be created. There is no storyplot - all you have is a blank sheet of paper.
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it.
While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.
The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.
Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see. . . And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are. . . that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.
I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.
Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.
Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.
When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.