Paper Quotes - Page 37

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.

Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

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.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

The Washington Post was interesting because it's such a politically minded newspaper.

I read little, I just glance through one newspaper. Just 15 minutes.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.