Some people can seem perfect. . . everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.
A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.
The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.
If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to. " Very often, very quickly you forget about it.
The paper standard is self-destructive.
Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right.
I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my papers.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died. ' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.
If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
Age is a number on a piece of paper.
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.