"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
“Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.”
“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
“It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page.”
"The Sadistic Muse" - an interview with Laura Miller at salon.com (10 February 1998) http://web.archive.org/web/20000110052318/http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/02/cov_si_10int.html
Context: It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Variant: It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
Source: Life of Pi
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki
“Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.”
alt.fan.pratchett (8 August 1997) http://www.lspace.org/ftp/words/pqf/pqf
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