Top 1200 Blank Page Quotes & Sayings

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

I live for the blank page.

As a writer, if you have something on a page, you can start moving it around and get something you like. But if you have a blank page, it's just gonna be a blank page.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

When I was 13, I went on 'Britain's Got Talent.' I auditioned. I sang a cover of a song called 'White Blank Page' by Mumford & Sons.

Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

There is no beginning that is a blank page.

A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.

For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.

Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

You can't edit a blank page

The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

You can't revise a blank page.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.

So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer.

I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.

For choice, I prefer not to be a public figure. I don't have Tom Cruise's good looks. I don't have a need to be on the front page of fill-in-the-blank.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

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.

I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.

Having the great opportunity on a daily basis to sit in front of a blank page is terrifying, and at the same time really exciting. I can't actually get better at my job, because every time you finish something you start with a blank page, with nothing.

One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

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.

The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

For me, the blank page to draw on is a window to adventure.

A poem should improve on the blank page.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page a blank page. But if you're going to make the page a blank page, it's not just the absence of something, it has to become something else. It has to be material, it has to be this thing. I wanted to turn a page into a thing.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

You can fix anything but a blank page.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.