“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway 501

American author and journalist 1899–1961

M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) American literary theorist

People's Education interview (2007)
Context: I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It’s not the final thing, it’s the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite. At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better — can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes. That is the important thing in teaching students to write: not to be frozen in their first effort.

“I have a bag full of words, and when one of us comes up with a good piece of music, I look in the bag to see if anything there will fit. If nothing does, I sit down and try to put down on paper what the music makes me feel; very rarely will a piece of writing inspire a piece of music.”

Robert Smith (musician) (1959) English singer, songwriter and musician

CANOE 1996

“What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.”

Dmitri Shostakovich book Testimony

Page 229
Testimony (1979)

“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”

Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American singer and film actor

In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in "Just A Couple Of Legends" CBS News.com (20 May 1998) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/05/20/entertainment/main9899.shtml

“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“I put it down on paper again in the summer of this year: ‘Berlin will live, and the Wall will fall.”

Willy Brandt (1913–1992) German social-democratic politician; Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

[...] ich habe es noch in diesem Sommer erneut zu Papier gebracht: Berlin wird leben, und die Mauer wird fallen.
speech at the Rathaus Schöneberg in Berlin on 10 November 1989, hdg.de/lemo http://www.hdg.de/lemo/html/dokumente/DieDeutscheEinheit_redeBrandt1989/index.html