“Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.”
Variant: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
Source: https://www.npr.org/2006/11/22/6524058/jodi-picoult-you-cant-edit-a-blank-page
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
“We were born as a blank page and we will die as a black page.”
Si nasce come una pagina bianca e si muore come una pagina nera.
“A poem should improve on the blank page.”
“I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
Variant: You can fix anything but a blank page.
“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
“History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.”
Variant, as translated by H. B. Nisbet (1975): History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
Die Weltgeschichte ist nicht der Boden des Glücks. Die Perioden des Glücks sind leere Blätter in ihr.
General Introduction to the Philosophy of History
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
“I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New.”
Cited in Herbert Henry Asquith, Letters of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to a Friend, Vol. 2 (1933), p. 94.
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Context: Miss Sands told me that Queen Victoria, who was latterly éprise with Disraeli, one day asked him what was his real religion. "Madam," he replied, "I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."