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Keep writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put some words on paper. You never know what will happen. — L.T. Brooks

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. — William Wordsworth

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

First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation. — T.F. Hodge

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper. — Jonas Eriksson

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that. — Pearl Cleage

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine ... and then make them plausible. — Chris Bohjalian

Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Writing is thinking on paper — William Zinsser

Will you be so kind, Mademoiselle, as to write down your permanent address on this piece of paper?' She complied. Her writing was clear and legible. — Agatha Christie

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper. — Eveli Acosta

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. — Buddy Ebsen

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. — Fennel Hudson

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed. — Tim Ferriss

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself. — Jeanette Michelle

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper. — Mitch Lucker

Sometime it is necessary for us to go a step further than merely writing words on paper. — Lisa Conell

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. — Ralph Keyes

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge. — Jay McInerney

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper. — Pat Barker

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. — Henry Miller

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper. — Truman Capote

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. — Eve Merriam

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them. — J.K. Rowling

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating. — Umberto Eco

You can't put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil. — Patricia Hampl

From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style? — David H. Millar

Writing is acting on paper. — Lydia Anne Klima

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper. — Sabine Shah

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere. — Abbie Cornish

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury

Dedication is writing your name on the botoom of a blank sheet of paper and handling it to the Lord for Him to fill in — Rick Renner

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. — Beryl Bainbridge

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper. — Debasish Mridha

In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision. — Dale Carnegie

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper. — Fennel Hudson

As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing. — Benjamin Bayani

Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper. — Katherine Reay

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time. — Sandra Brown

Paper is more patient than people. — Anne Frank

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory. — Isaac Marion

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. — Gene Fowler

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it. — Claire Danes

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. — Anton Chekhov

My worries travel about my head on their well-worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Don't know where to begin writing? Just throw up on paper. — Carolyn V. Hamilton

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper. — Tara VanDerveer

But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies. — Jacqueline Woodson

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic. — Leonie Swann

I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper. — Jonathan Culver

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. — Charles Bukowski

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. — James Turrell

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing. — Joel Chandler Harris

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. — Greg Rucka

The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into a beautiful mess on paper. — Shannen Wrass

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. — Christy Hall

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. — Stephen King

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly can write clearly, about anything at all. — William Zinsser

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot. — Augustus William Hare

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames. — Ernst Junger

Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published. — Wayne Dyer

That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time. — Tim Seeley

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important — Robin S. Sharma

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Write without fear and put down on your paper what you think, without thinking of what you must say — Louisa Catherine Adams

If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer. — D. VonThaer

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me. — Frank Luntz

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. — Raymond Chandler

From an author's point of view, the most painful and dangerous weapon ain't no gun or blade, but a piece of paper with the word rejected on it. — Anonymous

Writing is the process of making my soul tangible on paper. — Me

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper. — Gordon Lish

I talk to the friends in my head on paper. — Lisa M. Cronkhite

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done. — Chris Carmack

Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper. — Harry Kemelman

There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you. — Joe Orton

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper. — Victoria Laurie

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper. — James Robertson

Put the baby on the paper. — Barbara O'Connor

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage. — David Cross