A Quote by Joan Didion

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Joan Didion

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Joan Didion
American - Author
Born: December 5, 1934

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

Lee Kelly

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

Heather Matarazzo

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

Gertrude Stein

The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

Terry Pratchett

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

Sandra Brown

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

Pearl Cleage

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Wole Soyinka

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

Umberto Eco

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

Kimberly Willis Holt

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Anthony Kiedis

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.

William Goldman

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

Gordon Lish

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

Robert Reed

I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.

Nick Vujicic

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

Jaron Lanier

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Horace

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