Blank Quotes

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books. (Thomas Carlyle)
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. View quote
John Updike
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. View quote
Thornton Wilder
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. View quote
Steve Martin
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. View quote
Gene Fowler
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. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year--to really dissect the budget. View quote
Tyra Banks
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. View quote
Margaret Atwood
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. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. (Paul Cézanne)
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. View quote
Anna Quindlen
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A poem should improve on the blank page. View quote
Nicanor Parra
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs. View quote
Michael Shermer
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank. View quote
James Frey
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Life is fired at us point blank. (José Ortega y Gasset)
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. View quote
Irvine Welsh
No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament.”. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk