Pop just didn’t have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, ‘Paper Tiger’ and ‘Hold the Ladder, James’ and ‘Crimson and Clover.’ That wasn’t music!

And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse...

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really...

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words...

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper…

Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him...

Dream big and dare to make it happen. You have a heavy power; don’t misuse it carrying a paperweight load. Make it big!

Best friend is like a pen and we’re the paper. We’ll not complete without their ink

Love rocks. Stones also rock. I wish I could scissors paper my way into your heart.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child’s kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. “Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us.” We move closer, and when I reached for...

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn’t planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don’t have an eagle’s eye, that’s why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

I am the minister in The Ministry of Scarcity, but I’m not ordained because they were out of the paper they use to print the certificates on. Still, the title alone carries some weight (2.2...

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper

Even a broken heart doesn’t warrant a waste of good paper.

I’ve just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I’d finished I said to myself, ‘Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.’ (1911)