Quotation Explorer - 'Blank'

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. - Sylvia Plath
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you. - Israelmore Ayivor
I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever. - R.J. Dennis
I am no blank slate for love to write on.My heart has walls marred with cracks,bloodstains, and bullet holes;graffitied over by past lovers. - John Mark Green
To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life. - Isabella Koldras, Reclaiming my Life.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible - Vladimir Nabokov
Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages. - Israelmore Ayivor
My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book. - Akansh Malik
I live in the first drop of ink that touches every blank page. - Margie Curcio
A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. - Sandra Day O'Connor
Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised. - Gregory B. Sadler
Look at your life like a blank canvas and you're the artist, now go ahead and paint your masterpiece." . - Ray Mancini
The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me. - Rosita Forbes
Nothing listens as well as a blank page. - Shaun Hick
As I start each day I have a blank canvas. I will make every effort to fill it with color. - Wylie R. Weeks
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up. - Michael Bassey Johnson
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right. - Dave Matthes
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. - Douglas Pagels
The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again. - Edgar Wright
Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it. - Santosh Kalwar
The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere. - Arthur Conan Doyle
A writer's courage: to leave a blank page blank. - Marty Rubin
Survivors of the red pen can overcome the blank paper… - Nanette L. Avery
Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks. - F.T. McKinstry
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books - Thomas Carlyle
A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime. - Michael Piller
I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank? - A.M. Homes
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it - Jason Calder
you must not come lightly to the blank page. - Stephen King
Enjoy what you have, cherish the good times and savour everything life presents you. We can’t change the past…However, the future is a blank canvas, waiting for the paint, go create a masterpiece. - The Hypnotherapy Guy
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. - Neil Gaiman
I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page. - Ron Koertge
There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different. - Piper Payne
Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words. - V.M. Sawh
Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill. - Shannon Celebi
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. - Steve Martin
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. - Woody Allen
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. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. - Gaston Bachelard
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. - Sara Sheridan
I’m a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land. - E.K. Blair
Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes - Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. - Sylvia Plath
To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can fix anything but a blank page. - Nora Roberts
On the blank page all things are possible. - Marty Rubin
Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts - Michael Biondi
Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages. - Amitav Chowdhury
Tomorrow is a blank canvas and you are the artist. - Lamees Alhassar
I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do. - Rob E. Boley
Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words. - Barbara Case Speers
The blank page is the great equalizer and grand opportunity for continued learning and growth. - K.J. Kilton
Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. - Sidney Sheldon
Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank, and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up. - Ross Macdonald
EVERYONE’S LIFE IS A STORY TO TELL HOW GOOD YOU MAKE IT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE TO MANY IN THE WORLD IT IS SIMPLE TRY TO WRITE A BETTER STORY OF YOUR SELF STORY OF LIFE IS FULL OF BLANK PAGES HOW YOU FILL IT MAKES WHAT WE ARE ? Dr T.V.Rao MD - Dr.T.V.Rao MD
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'. - Andy Warhol
What is the meaning to this life? is a wrong question? A blank paper doesn’t contain any meaning till we don’t write anything meaningful on it. Similarly this universe doesn’t contain any meaning without this beautiful life. So life gives meaning to this universe and we should respect it. - Brajesh Kumar
A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination. - Marty Rubin
You can't edit a blank page - Nora Roberts
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it. - Tom Hiddleston
What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me. - Janet Fitch
Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists. - Carla H. Krueger
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time. - Cormac McCarthy
Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember. - Stephen King
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler
Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between the images. Make a list of creative dreams you've thought of or admire in others. - S.A.R.K.
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. - S.A. Bodeen
We are the things we don't remember,the blank spaces, the forgotten words. - Cecilia Ruiz
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